Enlightenment Ideas
The Enlightenment can be best defined as this.
What is an intellectual movement that promotes science and learning over superstition and faith?
Author of "Common Sense," and a major critic of British Parliament.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This religious group fled England to Pennsylvania to escape persecution. Were the only state to have religious tolerance.
Who are the Quakers?
This style of government only has one person or family with absolute power. Power is passed on to the next son/daughter or relative.
What is monarchy?
Britain had this problem after the French and Indian War.
What is national debt?
Ideas from the Enlightenment and Great Awakening were able to spread so quickly because of this invention.
What is the printing press?
John Locke's book argued that government is a social contract between the government and the people.
What is Two Treaties of Government?
The Great Awakening can be defined as these two things.
What is a rejection of old faith, and embracing personal faith?
This document lists the rights of people, and limits the powers of the government
What is a Bill of Rights?
This event took place when five protesters were shot and killed by British soldiers.
Progressivism can be defined as this.
What is using reason and learning to make the world better?
John Locke believed that people were shaped by this.
What is experience?
The belief that all forms of violence are wrong.
What is pacificism?
This style of government involves creating laws based on religious beliefs and texts.
What is theocracy?
After the Revolutionary War, the colonists created this.
What is the United States Constitution?
The idea of using reason and observation to learn and make informed decisions.
What is empiricism?
John Locke argued that the government exists for these four reasons.
What is protect life, liberty, and property. What is to limit monarchy?
This infamous Awakening preacher grew frustrated by his communities lack of faith, so he used hell to scare people into faith.
Double Points: Name the book he wrote.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This form of government has a king, but with limited powers and democratically elected officials.
What is constitutional monarchy?
The Coercive Acts punished the colonists in these four ways.
What is closing the harbors? What is the state government losing its power? What is out of state trials? What is housing British soldiers?
These are the four main ideas of the enlightenment.
What is empiricism, rationalism, progressivism, and deism?
Thomas Paine's had these four main points when criticizing the British Government.
What is the British Government is corrupt, they are the enemy, Monarchy is evil and the Bible supports this, loyalty to Britain is unreasonable.
These were the three differences between Quakers and Puritans.
What is people are inherently good/bad? What is predestination/earning your salvation? What is emphasis on baptism and rituals/actions over words or tradition?
The Constitution created this system where power was shared between the state and national government.
What is a separation of power?
These were the three main ways ideas of the Enlightenment inspired the American Revolution.
What is promotion of reading, learning, and questioning traditional values? What is new ideas spreading quickly throughout the colonies? What is the progressivism?