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Great Awakening, - ANSWERS-a movement characterized by fervent
expressions of religious feeling among masses of people. The movement
was at its strongest during the 1730s and 1740s.
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - ANSWERS-(1741). Invoking
the Old Testament scriptures, Edwards argued that God was rightfully
angry with human sinfulness. Each individual who expressed deep
penitence could be saved by God's grace, but the souls who paid no heed
to God's commandments would suffer eternal damnation.
George Whitefield- - ANSWERS-While Edwards mostly influenced
New England, George Whitefield, who came from England in 1739,
spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies, sometimes
attracting audiences of 10,000 people. In barns, tents, and fields, he
delivered rousing sermons that stressed that God was all-powerful and
would save only those who openly professed belief in Jesus Christ.
Those who did not would be damned into hell and face eternal torments.
Whitefield taught that ordinary people with faith and sincerity could
understand the gospels without depending on ministers to lead them.
Religious Impact - ANSWERS-1. Great Awakening had a profound
effect on religious practice in the colonies.
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2. emotionalism became a common part of Protestant services. Ministers
lost some of their former authority among those who now studied the
Bible in their own homes.
3. Great Awakening also caused divisions within churches, such as the
Congregational and Presbyterian, between those supporting its teachings
("New Lights") and those condemning them ("Old Lights").
Political Influence - ANSWERS-1. For the first time, the colonists
regardless of their national origins or their social class-shared in a
common experience as Americans.
2. had a democratizing effect by changing the way people viewed
authority.
Architecture - ANSWERS-1. In the 1740s and 1750s, the Georgian style
of London was widely imitated in colonial houses, churches, and public
buildings. Brick and stucco homes built in this style were characterized
by a symmetrical placement of windows and dormers and a spacious
center hall flanked by two fireplaces.
2. Such homes were found only on or near the eastern seaboard. On the
frontier, a one-room log cabin was the common shelter.
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Literature - ANSWERS-1. With limited resources available, most
authors wrote on serious subjects, chiefly religion and politics
2. widely read religious tracts by two Massachusetts ministers, Cotton
Mather and Jonathan Edwards
3. In the years preceding the American Revolution, writers including
John Adams, James Otis, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine, and Thomas
Jefferson issued political essays and treatises highlighting the conflict
between American rights and English authority
4. The poetry of Phillis Wheatley is noteworthy both for her triumph
over slavery and the quality of her verse.
Elementary Education - ANSWERS-1. A Massachusetts law in 1647
required towns with more than fifty families to establish primary schools
for boys, and towns with more than a hundred families to establish
grammar schools to prepare boys for college.
2. In the middle colonies, schools were either church-sponsored or
private. Often, teachers lived with the families of their students
3. In the southern colonies, parents gave their children whatever
education they could. On plantations, tutors provided instruction for the
owners' children.
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Higher Education - ANSWERS-1. The Puritans founded Harvard in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636 in order to give candidates for the
ministry a proper theological and scholarly education
2. The Anglicans opened William and Mary in Virginia in 1694, and the
Congregationalists started Yale in Connecticut in 1701.
creation of five new colleges between 1746 and 1769: - ANSWERS-•
College of New Jersey (Princeton), 1746, Presbyterian
• King's College (Columbia), 1754, Anglican
• Rhode Island College (Brown), 1764, Baptist
• Queens College (Rutgers), 1766, Reformed
• Dartmouth College, 1769, Congregationalist
Only one nonsectarian college was founded during this period. The
College of Philadelphia, which later became the University of
Pennsylvania, had no religious sponsors
College of New Jersey (Princeton) - ANSWERS-1746, Presbyterian
King's College (Columbia) - ANSWERS-1754, Anglican
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1 (CHAPTERS 1-4)
Great Awakening, - ANSWERS-a movement characterized by fervent
expressions of religious feeling among masses of people. The movement
was at its strongest during the 1730s and 1740s.
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - ANSWERS-(1741). Invoking
the Old Testament scriptures, Edwards argued that God was rightfully
angry with human sinfulness. Each individual who expressed deep
penitence could be saved by God's grace, but the souls who paid no heed
to God's commandments would suffer eternal damnation.
George Whitefield- - ANSWERS-While Edwards mostly influenced
New England, George Whitefield, who came from England in 1739,
spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies, sometimes
attracting audiences of 10,000 people. In barns, tents, and fields, he
delivered rousing sermons that stressed that God was all-powerful and
would save only those who openly professed belief in Jesus Christ.
Those who did not would be damned into hell and face eternal torments.
Whitefield taught that ordinary people with faith and sincerity could
understand the gospels without depending on ministers to lead them.
Religious Impact - ANSWERS-1. Great Awakening had a profound
effect on religious practice in the colonies.
END OF
PAGE
1
, APUSH AMSCO UNIT LATEST
1 (CHAPTERS 1-4)
2. emotionalism became a common part of Protestant services. Ministers
lost some of their former authority among those who now studied the
Bible in their own homes.
3. Great Awakening also caused divisions within churches, such as the
Congregational and Presbyterian, between those supporting its teachings
("New Lights") and those condemning them ("Old Lights").
Political Influence - ANSWERS-1. For the first time, the colonists
regardless of their national origins or their social class-shared in a
common experience as Americans.
2. had a democratizing effect by changing the way people viewed
authority.
Architecture - ANSWERS-1. In the 1740s and 1750s, the Georgian style
of London was widely imitated in colonial houses, churches, and public
buildings. Brick and stucco homes built in this style were characterized
by a symmetrical placement of windows and dormers and a spacious
center hall flanked by two fireplaces.
2. Such homes were found only on or near the eastern seaboard. On the
frontier, a one-room log cabin was the common shelter.
END OF
PAGE
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, APUSH AMSCO UNIT LATEST
1 (CHAPTERS 1-4)
Literature - ANSWERS-1. With limited resources available, most
authors wrote on serious subjects, chiefly religion and politics
2. widely read religious tracts by two Massachusetts ministers, Cotton
Mather and Jonathan Edwards
3. In the years preceding the American Revolution, writers including
John Adams, James Otis, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine, and Thomas
Jefferson issued political essays and treatises highlighting the conflict
between American rights and English authority
4. The poetry of Phillis Wheatley is noteworthy both for her triumph
over slavery and the quality of her verse.
Elementary Education - ANSWERS-1. A Massachusetts law in 1647
required towns with more than fifty families to establish primary schools
for boys, and towns with more than a hundred families to establish
grammar schools to prepare boys for college.
2. In the middle colonies, schools were either church-sponsored or
private. Often, teachers lived with the families of their students
3. In the southern colonies, parents gave their children whatever
education they could. On plantations, tutors provided instruction for the
owners' children.
END OF
PAGE
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, APUSH AMSCO UNIT LATEST
1 (CHAPTERS 1-4)
Higher Education - ANSWERS-1. The Puritans founded Harvard in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636 in order to give candidates for the
ministry a proper theological and scholarly education
2. The Anglicans opened William and Mary in Virginia in 1694, and the
Congregationalists started Yale in Connecticut in 1701.
creation of five new colleges between 1746 and 1769: - ANSWERS-•
College of New Jersey (Princeton), 1746, Presbyterian
• King's College (Columbia), 1754, Anglican
• Rhode Island College (Brown), 1764, Baptist
• Queens College (Rutgers), 1766, Reformed
• Dartmouth College, 1769, Congregationalist
Only one nonsectarian college was founded during this period. The
College of Philadelphia, which later became the University of
Pennsylvania, had no religious sponsors
College of New Jersey (Princeton) - ANSWERS-1746, Presbyterian
King's College (Columbia) - ANSWERS-1754, Anglican
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