Dominant Denominations
The Great Awakening
Pioneer Presses
The Great Game of Politics
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What is the Anglican Church?
The official Church of England founded by King Henry VIII after with dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church.
100
What is the years of the First Great Awakening?
1730-1760
100
This renowned lawyer defended John Peter Zenger in a famous trial.
Andrew Hamilton
100
Which two colonies elected their own governors under self-governing charters?
Connecticut and Rhode Island
200
What is an "established" church?
A term used to describe a tax-supported church.
200
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
The man from Northampton, Massachusetts, who started The Great Awakening movement.
200
Where was the first circulating library opened?
Philadelphia
200
How did the legislative body function in most colonies?
In the legislatures, people enjoyed direct representation, which allowed them to chose to create taxes for the colonial government's expenses. Which eventually led to self taxation.
300
The first college in Virginia founded to train a better class of clerics was called?
The College of William and Mary
300
The orthodox clergymen who were very skeptical of the new ideas rivaling Calvinism.
What are the Old Lights?
300
What did the government charge John Peter Zenger of?
Seditious Libel
300
Who was the governor of New York and New Jersey?
Lord Combury
400
Which religion was discriminated against in England as well as the New World colonies?
Roman Catholics
400
Who is George Whitefield?
A a follower of Edward’s teachings, he spread his message of human helplessness and divine impotence.
400
Who was John Peter Zenger?
Journalist for the New York Weekly Journal whose controversial publications criticizing the Governor, William Cosby, led to the landmark case known as the Zenger Trial.
400
What were Parliament’s Townshend taxes of 1767?
When the parliament decided that the legislatures would pay the governor instead of the royal crown itself, the colonial colonies started to create arguments until the Parliament finally decided to pay the governors through the Townshend taxes of 1767.
500
Part of which colony held the Church of England as their official religion?
New York
500
The concept that the individual free will, not divine decree, determined a person’s eternal fate.
What is Armianism?
500
How did new media contribute to revolutionary tendencies in the colonies?
Libraries spread ideas by circulating books and newspapers were a powerful agency for publishing colonial grievances against British control.
500
What aspects about the colonies made them more democratic than England and the rest of Europe? (Not just their government)
The colonies had ideas of tolerance, educational advantages, equality of economic opportunity, freedom of speech/press/assembly, and a representative government
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