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43 Cards in this Set
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what group in New England was the most influential?
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Puritans
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what dominated every aspect of the puritans life and society?
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religion
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what was the term for when in 1662 they decided to accept the children of church members even if the parents weren't saved?
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the Halfway Covenant
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the decline of Puritan influence definitely created a need for what?
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revival
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what church in the southern colonies was the official church in every southern colony?
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the Church of England or the Anglican church
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what were the official substitutes, to report on the conditions, to advise American pastors, and to promote education?
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commisaries
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what were the two best known commisaries?
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Thomas Bray and James Blair
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which church was the strongest in the cities?
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Anglican church
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who were the followers of the early reformer John Huss?
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moravians
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what were the Moravians searching refuge from?[this is why they settled in Germany]
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religious persecution
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what was a very important thing in the colonies?
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education
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when the Moravians settled in Germany, they next moved to where?
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Georgia
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In the 1720's, the colonists experienced a great revival known as the what?
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the Great Awakening
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the most powerful preacher in the South during the revival was a preacher in Virginia named ______ ________.
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Samuel Davies
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who was the leading preacher in the New England area?
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Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards had been instructed at which college.[was still teaching God's Word at this time]
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yale
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As Edwards preached on justification by ____, hundreds came to know the Lord.
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faith
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the greatest effect of the great awakening was what?
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the amazing number of converts
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another effect of the Great Awakening was that the revival increased the ________ activity in the colonies?
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missionary
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the great awakening also had a great impact on the __&___ in the colonies
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colleges and universities
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another result of the Great Awakening was the ___ of the gap between the _____ & ____.
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furthering/church/state
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the Great Awakening also stoked the fire for the desire of the colonists for ___ ____.
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political freedom
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the revival began a strengthening process in the ___ ___ of the people in the colonies.
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moral makeup
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the ________________ in EUROPE greatly affected thought.
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Enlightenment
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___ ____ were equivalent to our mondern-day elementary schools
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Grammar Schools
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Grammar School usually lasted for ___ years
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7 [seven]
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most Grammar school students learned to read either by reading _____ or by using a printed sheet of paper attached to a piece of wood called a "________"
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scripture/hornbook
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parents sent their children to "___ _____" where the children were instructed by widows or single women
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"dame schools"
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which college was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies and was begun by the puritans to help educate future ministers
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Harvard College
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Young men accepted ____ positions to learn trades.[this normally lasted for 7 years or until the man was 21 years of age.
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apprenticeship
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_______,("poor man's silver"), was a mixture of tin, lead, and copper.
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pewter
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____ ____, the "Father of the Iron Industry," created the boot scraper.
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Joseph Jenkins
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_____ _______ began producing clocks in the colony of Commeticutduring this time. His company still exists today.
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Seth Thomas
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__ ____ was the most famous furniture maker in the colonies
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Duncan Phyfe
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the early study of art in the colonies was known as the _____ _______.
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American Primitive
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more people could ___ in the colonies than Europe.
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read
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the greatest painter ever to work in the colonial America was who?
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John Singleton Copley
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who painted historical scenes from the revolutionary war such as "Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown"
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Charles Willson Peale
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who was the one-eyed painter who also painted battle scenes such as "The Battle of Bunker Hill," and 4 of his paintings are in the Rotunda of the Capital in Washington, DC
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John Trumbull
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who became one of the best known American painters?
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Benjamin West
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who painted the famous UNFINISHED portrait of George Washington?
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Gilbert Stuart
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the greatest painter ever to work in the colonial America was who?
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John Singleton Copley
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who was an evangelist from Englad that was also an important preacher to help kindle the Great Awakening?
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George Whitefield
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