Polls 1000 Test 1

Front 1

Three elements brought out by the author associated to a “Founding” are:

Back 1

National name/description of territory, constitution, and common dream or vision.

Front 2

Corruptness in government is always based on self-interest of the individuals in power?

Back 2

False

Front 3

The group of early migrants during the 1600's that believed that the Elizabethan ecclesiastical establishment was too political, ritualistic and had lost all scriptural authority were known as?

Back 3

Puritans

Front 4

Most Historians credit Thomas Cartwright with the major Puritan movement in America during the 17th century

Back 4

False. John Winthrop

Front 5

The overall goal of the Puritan’s was:

Back 5

Purify the Catholic Church

Front 6

New England Colonization was largely the basis of Puritan migration.

Back 6

True

Front 7

To the Puritans, people in general were:

Back 7

A. Sinful and could only achieve good through severe discipline.
B. Damned and could never achieve godliness.
C. Unable to achieve perfection, or the Good Society.
D. All of the above

Front 8

Death at an early age (often at 45) was a result of:

Back 8

A. Hard work and the early American lifestyle
B. Indian raids
C. Lack of medical understanding
D. All of the above

Front 9

The Puritans, as a political entity largely disappeared after the 17th century leaving behind

Back 9

Their attitudes and ethics

Front 10

Puritan beliefs were steeped in philosophical scholasticism

Back 10

True

Front 11

The Puritans brought forth the enlightenment age (in America).

Back 11

True

Front 12

The Church was foremost in the puritan society.

Back 12

False. Family

Front 13

The term to be “Warned away” in a Puritan community referred to:

Back 13

Outsiders were not welcome

Front 14

Congregations eventually grew into:

Back 14

Towns

Front 15

Puritanism had important implications toward Human Nature and the perceived general wickedness of the world.

Back 15

True

Front 16

The theory that America was to be as a light on the hills for the eyes of all Christendom to see was accredited to which Puritan leader?

Back 16

John Winthrop

Front 17

The downside to being a “beacon on the hill” was that:

Back 17

Morals were often overlooked in maintaining this high standard

Front 18

Two types of liberty preached of by John Winthrop was:

Back 18

Natural and Civil

Front 19

Which right or liberty, spoken of by Winthrop, let you do what you like?

Back 19

Natural

Front 20

Which right or liberty, spoken of by Winthrop, only let you do that which was declared by the people as right by God?

Back 20

Civil

Front 21

The “Calling” spoken of by John Calvin referred to:

Back 21

Worldly pursuits, governed by religious overtones

Front 22

Calvin’s philosophy that Self- Interest was not Virtue went against current Puritan belief, in fact, it was considered Blasphemy.

Back 22

False. Self-interest worked seamlessly into puritan belief.

Front 23

Anarchy

Back 23

rule by chaos, or disorder

Front 24

Tyranny

Back 24

rule by will or the Iron hand

Front 25

Having to choose between Anarchy or Tyranny is referred to as:

Back 25

Human Predicament

Front 26

Anarchy and Tyranny are similar in that:

Back 26

they are cyclical, in that one revolves around the other.

Front 27

The founding fathers looked at the following for their model of “The Good Society”?

Back 27

Republics of Classical Greece, Ancient Christianity, Political Ancestry in England.

Front 28

Science was the basis of:

Back 28

Enlightenment.

Front 29

Human Nature and Virtue are factors of what?

Back 29

A Society.

Front 30

Human Nature tends to desire material comfort and a life of ease.

Back 30

True

Front 31

The two basic virtues pertaining to the founding are?

Back 31

Public and Christian

Front 32

Virtue based on devotion to good moral behavior is:

Back 32

Christian Virtue

Front 33

Virtue based on rewards and punishments:

Back 33

Public Virtue

Front 34

Public and Greek Virtue are the same.

Back 34

True

Front 35

As the “Enlightenment” age dawned, a more predictable trend of human nature evolved called:

Back 35

Self-Interest

Front 36

A term used to explain how two opposite powers that can actually be used for control is called:

Back 36

Counterpoise

Front 37

All are devices placed in government for control except for:

Back 37

Written enumerated powers

Front 38

Republicanism in American was in three different, but related parts:

Back 38

Liberal, Classical, Democratic

Front 39

Who was the philosopher that put republicanism in presentable form by considering man’s natural rights of Life, Liberty and Property?

Back 39

John Locke

Front 40

Democratic Republicanism is:

Back 40

Rule by Many

Front 41

What was a distinctive change in the American Colonies after the French and Indian War that caused a broader separation from England?

Back 41

England and America no longer had a common enemy to bind them together.

Front 42

England sensed a need for a reformation to keep the Colonies in check, however, problems they faced in doing so were all but which one:

Back 42

Many political magistrates of the King had already moved back to England.

Front 43

Writs of Assistance

Back 43

A “Writ of Assistance” allowed the British to commandeer any home that they thought contained anti-British sentiments.

Front 44

Below are all reasons why England imposed taxes on the Colonies

Back 44

A. Citizens of England were tired of bearing most of the tax burden.
B. A large War debt had accrued after the French and Indian War.
D. Money was needed to maintain British troops in the colonies for protection.

Front 45

Committees that were instrumental in communicating the will of the Continental Congress throughout the colonies were known as:

Back 45

Committees of Correspondence

Front 46

Committees that took care of the military aspect of the Revolution in arming and supplying the militia and or army as well as the general safekeeping were:

Back 46

Committees of Safety

Front 47

The first actual bloodshed relating to the beginnings of the Revolutionary War was related to what event:

Back 47

The Boston Massacre

Front 48

The 1773 revolt against England’s East India Company’s commodities, wherein colonials boarded a ship after dark, dressed as Mohawk Indians was known as:

Back 48

The Boston Tea Party

Front 49

As a result of the Boston Tea Party, England did what?

Back 49

Closed off Boston Harbor

Front 50

Americans, even though they enjoyed more freedom and paid less taxes than most nations, felt their freedom was slipping away.

Back 50

True

Front 51

Paul Revere was a renowned printer as well as a secret service, or spy ring operator, which allowed printed press releases to the Continental Congress as to the actions of the British.

Back 51

False. He was a Silversmith

Front 52

The “Shot heard around the World” also know as the beginning shot of the Revolutionary war, was fired at:

Back 52

Lexington Common

Front 53

As the British retreated from the North Bridge skirmish back to Charleston, what mishap did they encounter?

Back 53

Colonial militia ambushed them in hiding

Front 54

The Bond of Nationhood which enabled the Continental Congress to raise and arm an army as well as to plot strategies and send out foreign ministers was called:

Back 54

Political

Front 55

The Bond of Nationhood that was cause by towns being turned into battlefields, and colonials dying was:

Back 55

Common suffering

Front 56

Advantages held by the Americans during the Revolution were:

Back 56

A. Time and circumstance
B. Seemingly endless supply of militia
C. A strong chance for foreign intervention on their behalf (France)

Front 57

Disadvantages that the British experienced lending to the eventual winning of the war for the Americans were:

Back 57

B. Political ineffectiveness in the colonies
C. Couldn’t isolate and destroy the Americans
D. Operated from a base 3,000 miles across the ocean, while fighting other battles in Europe
E. Relied on European battle tactics or fighting in the open

Front 58

Advantages France brought to the American cause were:

Back 58

B. More firearms of like manufacture
C. Strong Naval force

Front 59

The three basic parts to the Declaration of Independence were:

Back 59

Legal Brief (how the king defaulted), role of American Founding (what we were going to do because of the default) and pre-constitution

Front 60

American authors of the Declaration of Independence had to justify separation by using the default by the English Crown and illegal practices thrown on the colonies by Parliament.

Back 60

True

Front 61

German mercenaries (Hessians) were:

Back 61

Paid by the English Government to fight Americans.

Front 62

Some social and economic changes that happened in America after the war were:

Back 62

Democratic government, finance of government and a standing army, broadening of land ownership.