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The Great Awakening & The Enlightenment

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
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1.

You'll need a textbook.

a)

Got one

b)

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2.

Start reading on page 114 under A New Religious Movement.

a)

OK

b)

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3.

What religious revival swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s?

a)

The Great Revival

b)

The Great Awakening

c)

The Great Nap

d)

The Awakening from the Great Nap

4.

What New England preacher helped set off the Great Awakening?

a)

John Winthrop

b)

William Bradford

c)

Jonathan Edwards

d)

John Smith

5.

What was Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon? (In the quotations)

a)

Repent, the end is near

b)

Sinners in the hands of an angry God

c)

Always look on the bright side of life

d)

Peace through salvation

6.

What was one of the main causes of the Great Awakening?

a)

an alarm clock

b)

neighbors slamming their car doors at 5 in the morning

c)

the powerful sermons of preachers

d)

cats jumping on the bed

7.

What English minister's sermons spread the Great Awakening like wildfire?

a)

George Whitefield

b)

Jonathan Edwards

c)

John Winthrop

d)

William Bradford

8.

Which religious groups found new opportunities to expand during the Great Awakening?

a)

Puritans & Pilgrims

b)

Baptists & Methodists

c)

Catholics & Anglicans

d)

Presbyterians & Quakers

9.

What forced colonists to become more tolerant of people with different beliefs?

a)

new legislation

b)

the 1st Amendment

c)

the growth of so many new churches

d)

the king of England

10.

What brought colonists together for the first time?

a)

TGI Fridays

b)

interstate highways

c)

the Virginia House of Burgesses

d)

the Great Awakening

11.

What helped form the groundwork for future bonds among the colonies?

a)

the Great Awakening

b)

Crazy Glue

c)

the Protestant Reformation

d)

the Mayflower Compact

12.

What was a key factor in the development of American democracy?

a)

Puritans

b)

the importance of self-rule

c)

locksmiths

d)

Quakers

13.

When did many believers feel more free to challenge authority?

a)

on Sundays

b)

during Christmas

c)

when their liberties were at stake

d)

during Easter

14.

People began to think differently about what?

a)

their political rights and their government

b)

powdered wigs and buckled shoes

c)

knee britches

d)

triangular hats

15.

Skip to page 117 and start reading under A New World of Ideas.

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b)

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16.

In the 1600s, what did European scientists begin using instead of superstition to understand the world?

a)

calculators

b)

reason and logic

c)

crystal balls

d)

Infinity Stones

17.

Who explained the law of gravity?

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Werner Heisenberg

d)

Neils Bohr

18.

European thinkers of the late 1600s and 1700s believed that reason and scientific methods could be applied to the study of ____________.

a)

the Bible

b)

cooking

c)

society

d)

weaving

19.

They tried to discover the natural laws that governed what?

a)

the globe

b)

human behavior

c)

mechanical physics

d)

astronomy

20.

Because these thinkers believed in the light of human reason, the movement that they started is known as the...

a)

Wheel of Fortune

b)

Romanticism

c)

Enlightenment

d)

Existentialists

21.

Who was the best example of the Enlightenment spirit in the English colonies?

a)

John Locke

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

George Washington

d)

Benjamin Franklin

22.

At the age of 17, Franklin made his way to Philadelphia and built up a successful what?

a)

printing business

b)

bakery

c)

wood shop

d)

glassworks

23.

What was Franklin's most popular publication?

a)

Poor Dave's Almanack

b)

Poor Jerry's Almanack

c)

Poor Richard's Almanack

d)

Poor Bobby's Almanack

24.

Benjamin Franklin set up the first ____________ in the Americas.

a)

McDonald's

b)

lending library

c)

canal

d)

highway system

25.

You're done with this Quizizz. Go to the next one.

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