Time Periods Discussed throughout the semester

Question 1

puritanism

Answer 1

a religious reform that sought to purify the Church of England and return worship to a simpler way
their communities functioned as theocracies or societies guided by religious law
The Crucible is a literary work that refers to this time period

Question 2

age of reason/ enlightenment

Answer 2

a historical period characterized by a change away from traditional religious sources of authority, and move towards science and rational thought
(1700-1820)

Question 3

american renaissance

Answer 3

period from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War , it is the age where you express national spirit
it led to romanticism, where they praised the natural over the artificial, the emotional over the rational, and the individual will and consciences over external authority and control

Question 4

roaring twenties

Answer 4

dramatic and social change, nations wealth doubled, rise in jazz music, millions of women worked jobs, birth control became popular

Question 5

transcendentalism

Answer 5

an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths

Question 6

McCarthyism

Answer 6

(Second Red Scare) the political repression and persecution of left-wing individual and a campaign spreading fear (late 1940s through the 1950s)