A City Upon a Hill
Someone who wishes to purify the church by establishing biblical worship.
What is a Puritan?
These wars were often fought in this setting.
What is in an isolated wilderness, far from towns and large settlements?
This provided a unity based upon the common service to Christ rather than on any ethnic, political, or economic bond.
What is The Great Awakening?
This exists largely as principles and reflects the distinction between God the Creator and Man the Creation, while this exists as largely rules based upon the current culture.
What is Moral Philosophy and Moralisms?
This act placed a tax on any document by requiring an official seal.
What is the Stamp Act?
A Puritan founder of Boston, this man brought 700 settlers and 11 ships to Boston and gave his "City Upon a Hill" speech.
Who is John Winthrop?
This effectively began the Wars of Control.
What is when Henry VIII divorced his wife, Catherine of Aragon (a Hapsburg), and separated the Church of England from the Church of Rome, the Roman Catholic Hapsburg family was angered?
This man preached a revival in New Jersey that appealed for people to read the Bible for themselves and to make real Gospel changes in their lives.
Who is Theodore Frelinghuysen?
Known as a man of worship and prayer, he argued that the War of Independence was a war of reformation, and not a political measure.
Who is Samuel Adams?
These were taxes on tea, glass, paint, lead, and paper.
What are the Townshend Acts?
He was a judge, ambassador, and the last freely elected governor of Massachusetts, while she was the first American poet.
Who are Simon and Anne Bradstreet?
One of the largest fleets of Western history, this had the goal of conquering England and overpowering Elizabeth I.
BONUS: It fought in this famous Battle. (200 points)
What is The Spanish Armada?
BONUS: The Battle of Trafalgar
An intellectual and polymath who entered Yale at 12, he became head tutor at Yale and is most widely known for his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of Angry God" which sparked a revival in Massachusetts.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
Having taught many of the men who wrote The Constitution of the United States, he argued for a system of checks and balances based upon a Christian worldview.
Who is John Witherspoon?
For these reasons the Colonists had a right to rebel (give at least 3)
BONUS: 50 points for each additional reason
What are The colonies had been given Charters of self-government which the British frequently violated; Parliament was imposing its own law upon the colonies; British military posed a threat to the lives and liberties of all colonists; colonists were frequently suffering loss of life, liberty, or property in battles?
The "Apostle to the Indians", this man translated the Bible into the Algonquin language and established these.
What are John Eliot and praying towns?
During the Wars of Control, these people were commonly targeted, and both sides used these people to attack and slaughter villages of settlers.
Who are Civilians (non-combatants) and Native Allies?
One of the most influential people in American history, he attempted to make his own salvation through good works, but later realized he must accept grace.
Who is George Whitfield?
A lawyer, he publicly opposed the tyranny of Great Britain with this famous speech.
What are Patrick Henry and "Liberty or Death?"
The British punished Boston for the Tea Party in these ways (list 3).
What are No ships could enter or leave port until the tax was paid; Governor Gage was appointed to be in charge of the military and the government; all councilmen, judges, and juries had to be elected by the King's officers; Town meetings became illegal; Soldiers who fired on civilians were legally protected from prosecution; Habeas Corpus for colonists was suspended?
Known for their values, the Puritans practiced these 5 Puritan Values.
What are Work Ethic, Community, Family, Spiritual Disciplines, and Education?
The lesson the American Colonists learned from the Wars of Control.
What is they would be forever tied up in the desires of European monarchs unless they achieved independence?
What are Liberty, Grace, and Propitiation?
The founding fathers declared independence out of these three motivations.
What are a love for God's justice, a mercy for their persecuted neighbor, and a humility of conscience?
What is the Continental Congress?