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Semster 1 Final Flashcards

1
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Winthrop is associated with which era?

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Puritanism

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2
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Ben Franklin is associated with which era?

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Enlightenment

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Herman Melville is associated with which era?

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Dark Transcendentalism

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Edgar Allen Poe is associated with which era?

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Romanticism

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Thomas Paine is associated with which era?

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Enlightenment

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In 1527, Henry VIII infamously married who after the Vatican denied his request for a divorce from Catherine of Aragon?

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Anne Boleyn

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7
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In response to the Vatican’s unfavorable decision, Henry VIII did what?

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Established the Anglican Church

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During Queen Mary’s reign, which individual famously nailed “theses” to a door?

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Martin Luther

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Which person within the Protestant camp stressed the ideas of predestination, grace, and the “Elect”

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John Calvin

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10
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Complete the following phrase, “the never sets in the..”

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English Empire

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During the period of American colonization, the English gave what to May types of settlements?

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Charters

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12
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Where did John Smith land in America?

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Plymouth

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13
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This movement within Protestantism is based off of the idea that “faith alone saves”

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Calvinism

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14
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Identify the author: walden

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Thoreau

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15
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Identify the author: self-reliance

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Emerson

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16
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Identify the author: rappaccinis daughter

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Hawthorne

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17
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Identify the author: I sing the body electric

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Whitman

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18
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Identify the author: the legend of sleepy hallow

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Irving

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19
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Who said “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity…”

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Thoreau

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20
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The single word uttered by the raven in Poe’s poem of the same name

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“Nevermore”

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21
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The name of Rappaccinis daughter

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Beatrice

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22
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One of the two ancient civilizations that influenced the romantics

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Rome

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23
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Gangly teacher who meets the headless horseman

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Ichabod Crane

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24
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Massachusetts town that exhibited a “genius cluster”

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Concord, Mass

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25
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Whitman’s continuously revised life work

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Leaves of grass

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The brand of romanticism typified by Poe

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Dark romanticism

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27
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Roderick’s best childhood friend

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Narrator

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28
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The school teacher and singing master in one of Irving’s work

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Ichabod crane

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29
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“Madman! I tell you that she his stands without that door”

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The fall of the house of usher

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30
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“The virtue in most request is conformity, whoso be a man must be a non conformist”

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Emerson, self-reliance

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31
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Henry VIII

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Married Katherine of Aragon
Some colonization in America
Popular opinion in England was against the church (the church taxed)
Wanted a son, asked for a divorce (denied)
Married Anne Boleyn
Gave people a financial interest to support the king
Kept ceremonies & traditions

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32
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Matters involving Catholicism and Queen Mary

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Thousands of Protestants killed and persecuted
Reformation in English church mirrored Protestant reformation
Luther’s message: god is found through the bible, which a believer can read

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33
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John Calvin

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Predestination
Grace
Elect
Covenant

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34
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Predestination

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Ones fate is already determine for him

35
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Grace

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The quality needed to go to heaven

36
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Elect

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Those who were saved

37
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In the 17th century American Calvinists were called

38
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Migration to the new world

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English monarchs gave charters to several different types of settlements: religious, economic, political

39
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Reasons to go to the new world

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Poverty
Overcrowded island
Debt/jail terms
Religious “freedom”

40
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Thoreau is associated with which era?

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Transcendentalism

41
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Emerson wrote

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Nature and self-reliance

42
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Thoreau wrote

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Walden and civil disobedience

43
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Hawthorne wrote

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Ethan brand, young goodman brown, and rappaccinis daughter

44
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Irving wrote

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Rip van winkle, and legend of sleepy hollow

45
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Melville wrote

46
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Poe wrote

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The fall of the house of usher, Annabelle lee, the raven, and
sonnet-to science

47
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Whitman wrote

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Song of myself and the sleepers

48
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Brook farm

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The attempt at a Utopian society with transcendentalist influences

49
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Transcendentalism

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Philosophy based on the doctrine that the principles or reality are to be discovered by the study of the process of thought, or philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above empirical

50
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Transcendental fundamental beliefs

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Nature is fundamentally good
Everything is alive, related, and meaningful 
Individualism
Intuition 
Nature is symbolic 
Over soul
Everyone can experience god first hand
51
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Transcendentalism principal

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Structure of the universe literally duplicated the structure of the individual self and that all knowledge begins with self knowledge

52
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Transcendentalism is a form of what?

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Romanticism

- philosophy focusing on intuition, imagination, nature and self

53
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Transcendentalism connected to the revolution

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Occurred during the same age
Lessened the focus on individuals, making them parts of machines (encouraged people to break away from the crowd and develop own identities)

54
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Transcendentalism was a response to

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Enlightenment

55
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Goodman brown

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  • Stroy’s protagonist
  • Good Christian
  • Takes pride in family history
  • Curiosity lead him to accept invitation from mysterious stranger to observe an evil ceremony which shocks and disillusions him
56
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Faith

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Goodman browns wife

Young, beautiful, trusting

57
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The old man/devil

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Tempts goodman brown into the forest

Turns good men to evil

58
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Goody close

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Citizen of Salem who reveals herself to be a witch to goodman brown
Christian woman who helps people learn the bible

59
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Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini

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Renowned but sinister Padua physician who cultivates highly poisonous plants in his garden with the help of his daughter. Attempts to extract medical cures from the plants

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Giovanni Guasconti

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Handsome Neapolitan student enrolled in university of Padua. Lives in an apartment overlooking rappaccinis garden and makes acquaintance with his daughter (whose powers fascinate him)

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Beatrice Rappaccini

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Daughter of Dr. Rappaccini whose been exposed to toxins.. She becomes poisonous killing insects. Lives a life of isolation

62
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Roderick usher

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Owner of the mansion and last male in the usher line. Roderick functions as a doppelgänger for his twin sister. He represents her mind and body and suffers from the mental counterpart of her illness

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Madeline usher

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Roderick’s twin sister and visiting of an illness

64
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Baltus Van Trassel

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A thieving & contested farmer, father of Katrina, who is perfectly happy within the confines of his farm

65
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Brom Van Brunt

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Ichabod cranes biggest rival in the fight for Katrina’s hand. He is boisterous, burley, and the hero of the area known for his heroics and great strengths (Brom Bones). Skilled at horseback. Mischievous. Motivated by goodwill. One in disguise of headless horseman

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Ichabod Crane

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Goes to sleepy hollow to work has a school teacher. Tall & thin & singer. Interested in ghost stories. Meets the headless horseman.

67
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Katrina Van Tassel

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Daughter of wealthy farmer Balt. 18, beautiful, rich. Flirt. Student of Ichabod

68
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Rip Van Winkle

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Wanders off into the mountains and meets strange men (protagonist)

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Wolf

70
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Deism

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~ Values progress: from religion to science
~ America is becoming civilized; history moves not towards gods millennium but human progress resting on individual character and energy
~ deduced existence of god from the universe! not the bible
~ human are naturally good, no original sin
~ harmonious universe and benevolent
~ clockmaker god, everything operates under rules

71
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Ben Franklin represents

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The spirit of enlightenment

72
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Identify the author: what is an American?

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De Crèvecoeur

73
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Identify the author: a model of Christian charity

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John Winthrop

74
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Identify the author: of Plymouth plantation

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William Bradford

75
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Identify the author: the prologue, to my dear and living husband, verses upon the burning of our house

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Anne Bradstreet

76
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“My mind is my own church”

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Age of reason (enlightenment)

77
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“. . . [T]here is nothing between you and Hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up”?

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Jonathon Edwards, Puritanism (Calvinism/the great awakening)

78
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Identify the author: sinners

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Jonathan Edwards

79
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Identify the author: thanatopsis

80
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Jonathan Edwards

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~ said we should know the world by the five senses
~ said true belief is something we feel! not comprehend intellectually
~ accepted traditional Calvinist teachings
~ follower of Cotton Mather who said the winds were moved by angel wings
~ died of smallpox, attempting to show the benefits of science

81
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Jonathan Edwards’ purpose

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To make Puritanism viable for the 18th C America

82
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Who wrote “in the Plaine style, with singular regard unto the simple truth in all things”?

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Bradford, Puritanism

83
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The Great Awakening

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Small Puritan/Calvinist reform movement beginning as a response to the Enlightenment

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