Lesson 12 Flashcards
Who crossed the Atlantic Ocean?
The Pilgrims
Who founded his own colony?
Roger Williams
Years of revolution: national, political, religious, philosophical, and scientific.
1600s and 1700s
True or false: The Pilgrim Separatists did not move to North America to establish religious freedom.
True
A Separatist who declared that civil judges should not enforce religious beliefs.
Roger Williams
After three months in the wilderness, Williams received shelter from a what?
A Native tribe.
In 1636, Williams bought a small bay from the natives, which became known as what?
Providence
Who had declared that Christians were not bound to obey any human laws?
Anne Hutchinson
What age was the girl who falsely accused several older women of practicing witchcraft?
12-year-old girl
This event of accusation led to a hysteria which came to be known as the?
Salem Witch Trials
How many citizens accused of witchcraft provided confessions to the judges and they were freed?
50 citizens
How many accused citizens refused to confess their supposed guilt and were hanged?
19 citizens
What judge later confessed the “blame and shame” of the Salem Witch Trials?
A Puritan judge
In 1687, who used calculus to show how gravity could explain the mystery of planetary movements?
Isaac Newton
Newton’s book
“Revolution in Human Reason”
Newton published his proofs in a book titled?
“Mathematical Principles for Natural Philosophy”
Focused on individual reasoning, words, science, and natural order?
The Enlightenment
This was advocated in Western philosophy and cultural life as the primary source and legitimacy for authority.
Individual reason
“With human reason and the five senses crowned as king, mystery–including the twin mystery of tradition and authority–is banished. A god who intervenes in human history is viewed as irrelevant.”
Brian Hobbs
Many Enlightenment thinkers embraced what?
Deism
Most of these people believed that a divine being had created the universe and natural laws, but this being was revealed to humanity primarily through the created order.
Deists
True or false: For Deists, to be Christian was not to simply live according to Christ’s ethics.
False
Even in this time of spiritual darkness, God’s people were ______?
Praying
These prayers in early 1700s resulted in what?
A “Great Awakening”