US History Review 1 Colonization - Constitution

Which early religious movement played a key role in developing democratic thought and individual freedom-- ideas which helped usher in the American Revolution?

• Restorationism

• Manifest Destiny

• the Great Awakening

• the Era of Good Feelings

The "Great Awakening" was

• a phrase used to justify the institution of slavery as being beneficial to African-Americans.

• the movement to educate women in early colonial America for more active roles in raising children

• a series of religious revivals that swept across the American colonies in the middle of the 18th Century.

• the spreading of the abolitionist movement in response to the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

With which religious movement is George Whitefield MOST closely associated?

• Restorationism

• Predestination

• The Great Awakening

• Unitarian Universalism

A colonial parishioner during the "First Great Awakening" would have been MOST likely to be concerned with which of these causes?

• abolition of slavery

• animal rights

• immigrant rights

• religious salvation

What movement, in the 1730s and 1740s, resulted in a revival of religious beliefs among churchgoers and contributed to two later movements in which religion heavily influenced American society?

• The Pilgrim Movement

• The Methodist Movement

• The Last Great Awakening

• The First Great Awakening

Preachers of the Great Awakening in 18th century America would have been most likely to give a sermon focusing on

• the rights of man.

• Enlightenment thought.

• the evils of the institution of slavery in the South.

• repenting of one's sins in order to be saved from eternal damnation.

The French and Indian War is often viewed by historians as being a factor in causing the American Revolution. Which of these BEST explains why this might be the case?

• The Indians believed the colonists would return seized lands to them.

• The British were able to defeat the French in North America, Asia, and at sea.

• The high cost of the war meant Parliament had to create new taxes in the American colonies.

• The British need to create a French/Indian alliance in order to gain support from the Spanish.

Thomas Paine's Common Sense encouraged support for the American independence movement by

• appealing to the colonists' sense of inalienable rights and liberty.

• blaming the British for starting the "peculiar institution" of slavery.

• listing specific grievances against King George III and the British government.

• reminding Americans that colonies fighting for independence rarely resulted in success.

The Sons of Liberty, a group that vocally rebelled against the British prior to the American Revolution, would be most supported by what group?

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Royalists

• Tories

Why did American colonists resent British taxes?

• American colonists were unhappy that the high taxes were keeping the nobility in luxury.

• Unlike American colonists, people who lived in Great Britain did not have to pay any duties .

• Americans did not elect representatives to Parliament as people who lived in Great Britain did.

• Great Britain did not offer the American colonists any protection from the French and the Indians.