Chapters 4-5

Question 1

Hornbook

Answer 1

A child’s first book shaped like a paddle and had the alphabet and the Lord’s prayer.

Question 2

New England Primer

Answer 2

Standard text throughout the colonial period that provided basic grammar and vocab accented with moral lessons and included a short catechism (instruction regarding christian beliefs)

Question 3

Dame schools

Answer 3

Schools that were open to boys and girls and were taught by women

Question 4

Smallpox

Answer 4

A deadly English disease that killed most of the Native Americans

Question 5

Poor Richard’s Almanac

Answer 5

a page with pictures and words of wisdom by Benjamin Franklin

Question 6

Puritans

Answer 6

Protestants who agreed wholeheartedly with the Anglican creed, however they thought the church had to be purified from the customs of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 7

Separatists

Answer 7

Believed the whole church of England was corrupt and that true Christians must separate themselves from it

Question 8

Congregationalists

Answer 8

New England Puritans who elected its own officers and each church remained independant of other churches

Question 9

Half-Way Covenant

Answer 9

Church members who had not owned the covenant but whose lives were outwardly moral could present their children for baptism

Question 10

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 10

Resulted from the claims of several young girls in Salem Village, MA that witches were afflicting them

Question 11

non-established denominations

Answer 11

Groups that did not have the state support or protection

Question 12

Roger Williams

Answer 12

Fled from MA, founded RI, and the first baptist church

Question 13

Baptists

Answer 13

only baptized professing believers and then only by immersing them in water

Question 14

Quakers

Answer 14

believed that the inner light is a spark of divinity and that man is saved through obeying its leading rather than through the atonement of Christ

Question 15

George Fox

Answer 15

originated the quakers

Question 16

Lutheran

Answer 16

followers of Martin Luther

Question 17

Mennonites

Answer 17

Anabaptists (refused to do anything with the state and believed in a holy, simple life) who followed Menno Simons

Question 18

Amish

Answer 18

More conservative branch of the Mennonites

Question 19

Presbyterians

Answer 19

Originated in the British Isles

Question 20

Huguenots

Answer 20

French Reformed; settled in the colonies after Louis XIV abolished freedom of worship in 1685; many became presbyterians

Question 21

Moravians

Answer 21

Followed John Huss of Bohemia; emphasized conversation, person piety, and a holy life; evangelism was a concern

Question 22

Great Awakening

Answer 22

First most significant religious revival in America

Question 23

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 23

Greatest Theologian of the Great Awakening; preached about justification by faith in 1734; wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry

Question 24

George Whitefield

Answer 24

Outstanding Evangelist who preached outdoors and had a loud voice that enabled him to speak to thousands at a time

Question 25

Louisiana

Answer 25

French territory named after King Louis XIV

Question 26

Seven Years' war

Answer 26

The European name for the French and Indian war

Question 27

George Washington

Answer 27

22 year old Virginian colonel; built Fort Necessity

Question 28

Fort Duquesne

Answer 28

Constructed by the french; Pittsburgh = fort dookie

Question 29

guerrilla warfare

Answer 29

involved surprise attacks by small groups

Question 30

Albany Congress

Answer 30

Attempted political unity

Question 31

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 31

Proposed the Albany Plan

Question 32

Edward Braddock

Answer 32

Tried to capture Fort Duquesne by oragnized open battle

Question 33

Marquis de Montcalm

Answer 33

French commander in America

Question 34

William Pitt

Answer 34

British leader who devised a plan to win the French and Indian war

Question 35

James Wolfe

Answer 35

Killed fighting in Canada

Question 36

Battle of Quebec

Answer 36

Canadian battle in 1759 that was a major defeat for the French

Question 37

Treaty of Paris

Answer 37

Required France to give its land back in Canada to the British

Question 38

George III

Answer 38

British king in 1760

Question 39

Pontiac

Answer 39

Ottawa chief who led a war against the British after the French and Indian war

Question 40

Power of the Purse

Answer 40

Salaries for the royal officials, military appropriations, and taxes had to obtain the approval of elected officeholders. Assemblies had the power to initiate their own legislation

Question 41

Proclaimation of 1763

Answer 41

prohibited colonist from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains

Question 42

Sugar Act

Answer 42

placed taxes on certain imported goods. raised revenue for defraying the expenses of defending, protecting and securing the colonies

Question 43

Stamp Act

Answer 43

levied the first internal tax ever imposed on the colonies. They were being taxed without their consent and traditional power of colonial legislatures were being bypassed

Question 44

Internal tax

Answer 44

tax on items produced and consumed entirely within the colonies

Question 45

Sons of Liberty

Answer 45

group of people who were opposed to the Stamp Act

Question 46

Quartering Act

Answer 46

officially subjected the colonies to a standing army in peacetime and further required that the colonist feed and house them

Question 47

Patrick Henry

Answer 47

member of the Virginian House of Burgesses; presented resolutions declaring the Virginians possessed all rights and privileges of Englishmen and to grant the right of taxation to every other colony was an act of tyranny

Question 48

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 48

denounced the stamp act and the seizure of colonial rights that it represented

Question 49

Samuel Adams

Answer 49

led the Sons of Liberty

Question 50

Declaratory Act

Answer 50

Parliament had the right to pass any law regarding the colonies that it desired

Question 51

Townshend Acts

Answer 51

Put taxes on glass, paint, paper, and tea; direct conflict with power of the purse

Question 52

boycotts

Answer 52

refusal to buy british goods