WorksheetsThe Great Awakening & The Enlightenment
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Start reading on page 114 under A New Religious Movement.
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What religious revival swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s?
The Great Revival
The Great Awakening
The Great Nap
The Awakening from the Great Nap
What New England preacher helped set off the Great Awakening?
John Winthrop
William Bradford
Jonathan Edwards
John Smith
What was Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon? (In the quotations)
Repent, the end is near
Sinners in the hands of an angry God
Always look on the bright side of life
Peace through salvation
What was one of the main causes of the Great Awakening?
an alarm clock
neighbors slamming their car doors at 5 in the morning
the powerful sermons of preachers
cats jumping on the bed
What English minister's sermons spread the Great Awakening like wildfire?
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
John Winthrop
William Bradford
Which religious groups found new opportunities to expand during the Great Awakening?
Puritans & Pilgrims
Baptists & Methodists
Catholics & Anglicans
Presbyterians & Quakers
What forced colonists to become more tolerant of people with different beliefs?
new legislation
the 1st Amendment
the growth of so many new churches
the king of England
What brought colonists together for the first time?
TGI Fridays
interstate highways
the Virginia House of Burgesses
the Great Awakening
What helped form the groundwork for future bonds among the colonies?
the Great Awakening
Crazy Glue
the Protestant Reformation
the Mayflower Compact
What was a key factor in the development of American democracy?
Puritans
the importance of self-rule
locksmiths
Quakers
When did many believers feel more free to challenge authority?
on Sundays
during Christmas
when their liberties were at stake
during Easter
People began to think differently about what?
their political rights and their government
powdered wigs and buckled shoes
knee britches
triangular hats
Skip to page 117 and start reading under A New World of Ideas.
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In the 1600s, what did European scientists begin using instead of superstition to understand the world?
calculators
reason and logic
crystal balls
Infinity Stones
Who explained the law of gravity?
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Werner Heisenberg
Neils Bohr
European thinkers of the late 1600s and 1700s believed that reason and scientific methods could be applied to the study of ____________.
the Bible
cooking
society
weaving
They tried to discover the natural laws that governed what?
the globe
human behavior
mechanical physics
astronomy
Because these thinkers believed in the light of human reason, the movement that they started is known as the...
Wheel of Fortune
Romanticism
Enlightenment
Existentialists
Who was the best example of the Enlightenment spirit in the English colonies?
John Locke
Isaac Newton
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
At the age of 17, Franklin made his way to Philadelphia and built up a successful what?
printing business
bakery
wood shop
glassworks
What was Franklin's most popular publication?
Poor Dave's Almanack
Poor Jerry's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Bobby's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin set up the first ____________ in the Americas.
McDonald's
lending library
canal
highway system
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