Reading Quiz 5' Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

The time- honored English ideal, which Americans accepted for some time, regarded education as

• reserved for the aristocratic

• unimportant for leaders

• designed for men and women

• essential training for citizenship

The person most often called the "first civilized American" was

• John Trumbull

• Phillis Wheatley

• John Winthrop

• Benjamin Franklin

The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because

• it allowed the press to print irresponsible criticisms of powerful people

• the ruling prohibited criticisms of political officials

• it supported English Law

• it pointed the way to open public discussion

The Great Awakening

• undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies

• was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people

• split colonial churches into several competing denominations

• led the founding of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Rutgers colleges

By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except...

• basically English in language

• same degree of ethnic and religious toleration

• opportunity for social mobility

• Protestant in religion

• complete democracy

Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on

• Literature

• religion

• science

• modern languages

• Math

The "new light" preachers of the Great Awakening

• rarely addressed themselves to the matter of individual salvation

• delivered intensely emotional sermons

• were ultimately unsuccessful in arousing the religious enthusiasm of colonial Americans

• reinforced the established churces

By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was

• stronger than at any previous time

• holding steadfastly to the belief that spirtual conversion was essential for church membership

• moving away from clerical intellectualism

• less fervid than when the colonies were established