Education
True or False: The Puritans strongly supported education.
What is true.
True or False: American literature began with early writing like poetry and newspapers.
What is true.
True or False: The Great Awakening was a time when thinkers looked for natural laws.
What is false. The Great Awakening was a religious revival, a time when people renewed strong interest in religion.
True or False: John Locke argued that people have divine rights.
What is false. He argued that people have natural rights.
True or False: A dame school is usually run by men who taught basic reading and writing.
What is false. It is usually run by women.
True or False: Colonial schools were the same as today.
What is false. They were different as they focused on religion as well as basic skills.
True or False: Anne Bradstreet was one of the first colonial journalist.
What is false. She was one of the first colonial poets, writing about family, religion, and everyday life.
True or False: The Great Awakening led to the growth of new churches like Methodists and Baptists.
What is true.
True or False: Montesquieu supported the separation of powers (meaning dividing government so no one group has too much control.
What is true.
True or False: The Puritans were wealthy landowning families in colonial society.
What is false. The gentry were wealthy landowning families in colonial society.
Who was not allowed to attend schools?
Who were the African Americans.
Who was Phillis Wheatley and what was she known for?
Who was an enslaved African in Boston who began publishing poetry in the 1760s at 14 years old.
Preachers like Jonathon Edwards told people to examine their lives and warned about what could happen when?
What was what could happen after death.
Locke said that if a ruler violated people's rights, the people have a right to do what?
What is the right to overthrow or remove the ruler from power.
What is a diplomat?
What is a person who represents their country in official discussions with other nations.
What was created to help fund schools publicly and privately?
What were laws.
What was Benjamin Franklin known for? Give at least three examples.
What was being an important writer, businessman, inventor, scientist, community leader, and diplomat.
Who was George Whitefield?
Who was another preacher who spoke with strong emotion, leaving many listeners in tears after his sermons.
What are the three branches of government?
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial.
What does the word zeal mean?
What is great energy or passion for something, especially religion.
Describe education in the South.
What was uneven: wealthy gentry families hired private tutors, poor children had no schooling. Some girls attended small dame schools, but their education was limited.
What was Benjamin franklin known as?
What was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Besides religion, what other idea did The Great Awakening help spread?
What was the democratic idea: if people could choose their religion, they could also decide how they were governed.
What are the three branches of government and what does each one mean?
What are legislative: makes laws, executive: enforces laws, judicial: interprets laws and makes judgements.
What is the difference between natural rights and divine rights?
What is natural rights is the belief that people are born with life, liberty, and property. Divine rights is the belief that a ruler's power comes directly from God.