Enlightenment & Great Awakening

What was the Enlightenment?

• An intellectual movement that focused on science, reason, and logic

• A religious revival of the 13 colonies that stressed the importance of salvation from damnation by repenting for your sins

• The age of electricity and the invention of the lightbulb

• A time when people only studied religion and the bible and everything was explained through superstitious beliefs

What ideas did John Locke have?

• The government's power should be separated into 3 branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial

• People have natural rights and the government must protect them if it does not the people have the right to overthrow the government.

• People have individual rights such as freedom of speech

• The government has the right to imprison people if they do not pay their taxes

What ideas did Charles de Montesquieu have?

• We are born with unalienable rights that are life, liberty, and property

• We all have individual rights such as freedom of speech

• The power of the government should be separated into three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial

• The powers of the government should be unlimited

What idea did William Blackstone have?

• The government should be unlimited

• The government's power should be separated into 3 branches

• In God's eyes we are all equal

• The government must grant us individual rights such as freedom of speech

What was the Great Awakening?

• The exact moment when people wake up after a long period sleeping through out the months of winter

• A religious revival in the 13 colonies that emphasized salvation from damnation by repenting for your sins

• An intellectual movement that began in Europe which focused on science, reason, and logic

• A time of superstitious beliefs and myths

What is Jonathan Edwards best known for?

• Preaching his sermon "Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God," which told people to repent for their sins or else suffer eternal damnation

• Inventing a way to harness electricity by flying a kite during an electrical storm

• Writing poems about the evils of slavery

• Writing Poor Richards Almanac

What was George Whitfield best known for?

• Scaring people so they would donate all their money to the church

• Preaching to large crowds in open fields, and saying, "We are all equal in Gods eyes"

• He as an inventor, a scientist, and a statesman

• He helped write the Declaration of Independence

Who was Phillis Whitely?

• A woman who was banished from the colony of Florida for saying she had the power to speak to God

• She was elected to office in the Virginia House of Burgesses

• She assisted John Locke in his scientific experiments

• A slave girl who wrote poems about the evils of slavery

Who was Benjamin Franklin and what is he best known for?

• A preacher who warned the colonists to save their souls from eternal damnation by going back to church

• A philosopher who believed the government has every right to be declared unlimited

• A scientist, inventor, and statesman who helped to write the Declaration of Independence and Poor Richard's Almanac

• The inventor of the incandescent lightbulb

The establishment of American Universities like Yale, Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, and Dartmouth were all due to...

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Great Awakening

• People learned how to read

• Voter qualifications