Great Awakening & Enlightenment

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

_________________ influenced the Declaration of Independence and the English Bill of Rights.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Which statement best describes the beliefs of the Enlightenment thinkers?

• Absolute monarchs would govern wisely and fairly

• Science and reason could improve people's live

• Religion alone could answer all the questions about life

• Ancient Greeks and Romans knew all there was to know

The Great Awakening was a __________ movement.

• political

• scientific

• religious

• artistic

Ministers of The Great Awakening preached ___________

• God was angry

• people were not equal

• colonists should not be independent

• colonists could be saved

Religious meetings drew

• no crowds

• small crowds

• medium crowds

• large crowds

Called on people to examine their lives and commit themselves to God

• Anne Bradstreet
• Jonathan Edwards
• Benjamin Fraklin
• Phillis Wheatley

George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards gave sermons about

• the existence of many gods.
• helplessness and sinfulness of humankind.
• importance of government.
• importance of other religions.

Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence? 

• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke 
• Adam Smith

This was an 18th century philosophical movement of intellectuals, aiming to apply reason to all endeavors.

• Reformation
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment
• Scientific Revolution