Significant People
Born in 1714, this person was known as a "divine dramatist" and was a famous preacher during the First Great Awakening.
Who is George Whitefield?
This moment was a religious revival that occurred throughout the colonies in America. This took place between the 1730s and the 1770s.
What was the First Great Awakening?
John Winthrop famously said this phrase during a sermon. He meant to illustrate America as an example for others to look at.
What is a “city upon a hill”?
When George Whitefield ‘fought’ with the devil in, what remained on the rock in Ipswich, MA?
What is the Devil's footprint?
Period from 17th-18th centuries; age of reason that challenged traditional ways of thought.
What is the Enlightenment?
This person was the Chief of the Wampanoags, he united many tribes in southern New England against English settlers.
Who was King Philip/Metacomet?
Document that stipulated that people could become partial church members even if they were not baptized, converted, or sanctified.
“The whole Congregation was immediately thrown into the utmost confusion and Disorder”
Who is George Whitefield?
The death of this person triggered King Philip's War.
Who was Sassamon?
Colonies of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. They were characterized by large scale plantation agriculture and cash crops like tobacco and rice.
What were the Southern Colonies?
Born in 1603, this Puritan was banished from Bay Colony, founded Providence, Rhode Island, allowed for free worship of religion.
Who was Roger Williams?
This is an economic theory that says that trade, colonies, and accumulation of wealth are the basis of a country’s military and political power.
What is mercantilism?
“By supporting the new churches…you have hurt the very being of our Churches”
Who is Nathanael Henchman? (to George Whitefield).
What was the name of the phenomenon where the Quakers attempted to establish a religious society and persecuted other religious minorities?
What was the Holy Experiment?
Colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. They were known for economics focused on fishing, shipbuilding, and trade.
What were the New England Colonies?
Born in 1591, this person believed in antinomianism and founded Portsmouth in 1638.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
What was the name of the phenomenon where goods were traded from the Americas, Europe, and Africa?
What is the Triangular trade or Transatlantic Trade?
“And therefore the glorious presence of God in heaven, fills heaven with love, as the sun, placed in the midst of the visible heavens in a clear day, fills the world with light.”
Who is Jonathon Edwards?
This event was a slave revolt in the Southern Colonies in 1739. In this event enslaved people gathered together to rebel against the repressive system.
What is the Stono rebellion?
Colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. They have focus on trade and agriculture, and are known to have religious tolerance.
What were the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
This person was a Puritan church leader who fought against the Great Awakening and new Enlightenment ideas in religion.
Who was Nathanael Henchman?
The rebellion led by impoverished farms in 1676, that was a series of raids against American Indian villages on the Virginia frontier.
What was Bacon’s Rebellion?
“He that will not work shall not eat”
Who is John Smith?
This act was created in 1649 in Maryland and allowed for all Christians to have religious freedoms within their differing denominations.
What was the Maryland Toleration Act?
Conflict between English colonists in New England and Native American tribes that took place 1675-76 and was caused by tensions over land and colonial pressures on indigenous populations.
What was King Philip’s War?