Chp. 3- Important Events Leading to the American Revolution

Question 1

Englightenment “Age of Reason”

Answer 1

1685-1815, a European intellectual movement marked by an interest in Classical works, science, theology, and philosophy

shifted focus from God to man

Question 2

Galileo Galilei

Answer 2

proposed a heliocentric theory and was imprisoned

Question 3

John Locke

Answer 3

1689, an Englightenment thinker who published an anonymous essay titled “Two Treatises of Government”

1. Divine Right Absolutism is a false narrative
2. consent of the governed

Question 4

Deism

Answer 4

a philosophical belief in God based on reason rather than faith

God is analogous to a watchmaker- set the universe in motion but does not intervene

Question 5

Reoublicanism

Answer 5

rulers receive authority from people, people receive their rights from God (Divine Right Absolutism inverted)

Question 6

Thomas Paine

Answer 6

authored the pamplet “Common Sense” which translated these philosophies into plain English

Question 7

Great Awakening

Answer 7

1730-1750, a religious movement in British North America that emphasized human decision in matters of religion/morality

reaction to Puritanism

Question 8

George Whitefield

Answer 8

tried to elicit a personal, emotional response through his energetic preaching (Anglican)

Question 9

Johnathan Edwards

Answer 9

1741, incited the First Great Awakening with his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God”

Question 10

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 10

prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalacian mountains

attempted to avoid conflict with Native Americans

Question 11

French and Indian War (Seven Years War)

Answer 11

1756-1763, a pancontinental war between European powers for Colonial territory in Africa, India, the Philippines, and both Americas that fundimentally shifted the global balance of power