The Enlightenment
This time period focused on reason, science, and logic to understand the world
What is the Enlightenment?
This movement in the 1730s–1740s encouraged people to renew their faith and emotions.
What is the Great Awakening?
Both movements encouraged people to do this—rather than simply obeying authorities.
What is think for themselves?
The Salem Witch Trials took place in this colony in 1692.
What is Massachusetts?
This special court was created to handle the witch trials.
What is the Court of Oyer and Terminer?
This Enlightenment thinker believed in natural rights like life, liberty, and property.
This Enlightenment thinker believed in natural rights like life, liberty, and property.
This preacher gave emotional sermons that sparked the movement.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
The Enlightenment challenged kings and government, while the Great Awakening challenged this type of authority.
What is church authority?
A group of people in Salem believed in strict religious rules and feared the Devil.
Who were the Puritans?
This type of evidence claimed that someone’s ghost or spirit hurt another person.
What is spectral evidence?
This belief held that people can solve problems using reason and observation.
What is rational thinking?
One major effect of the Great Awakening was the rise of new groups such as Baptists and Methodists, known as this.
What are denominations?
Both movements helped shape this shared idea of who Americans were becoming.
What is American identity?
The trials began when young girls showed strange behavior and the doctor blamed this.
What is witchcraft?
This many people were executed by hanging during the trials.
What is 19?
This Enlightenment scientist discovered important laws about gravity and motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The Great Awakening encouraged this idea, allowing people to have their own connection with God.
What is personal faith?
The Enlightenment led to ideas about democracy, while the Great Awakening led to this type of diversity.
What is religious diversity?
This term means uncontrollable excitement or fear among a group of people.
What is hysteria?
One major lesson from the Salem Witch Trials is the importance of this in the justice system.
What is fair trials and real evidence?
The Enlightenment helped inspire these two major American documents about freedom and natural rights.
What are the Declaration of Independence and the ideas that led to the Revolution?
This term describes a religious speech designed to teach or inspire.
What is a sermon?
Both movements promoted new ways of thinking about these two principles central to American beliefs.
What are freedom and equality?
This word means accusing someone of wrongdoing, even without solid proof.
What is an accusation?
What was the name of the accused witch that shared information about the devil with the teenage girls?
Who is Tituba?