American Colonialism

Question 0

The first migration

Answer 0

Ice age travelers

Question 1

American colonialism date

Answer 1

1620-1800

Question 2

How long had people been living in the new world before European explorers arrived

Answer 2

20,000-40,000

Question 3

What was the largest Native American civilization

How many living there

Answer 3

Aztec empire -15th century

Millions

Question 4

Christopher Columbus life

Answer 4

1451-1506

Question 5

Alvar Nunez Cabrera de Vaca life

Answer 5

1490-1557

Question 6

Who was Alvar

Answer 6

Treasurer of Spanish expedition

Landed on west coast of Florida

Question 7

What did the Spanish expedition do

Answer 7

Went inland
Got lost
Waited for 1 year for a ship
Walked for eight years to Texas before rescued

Question 8

What did Alvar do after expedition got rescued

Answer 8

Wrote narrative

Question 9

Who did American literature begin with

Answer 9

Puritans

Question 10

Who were American rationalists

Answer 10

Thomas Jefferson, Sam Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington

Question 11

Where did puritans arrive and when (what were two settlements before

Answer 11

1620 cape cod

Roanoke and Jamestown

Question 12

By what date and how many puritans tried coming to…

Answer 12

1640 20,000 New England

Question 13

Why did puritans come

Answer 13

Business venture: land ,minerals, animals people lumber

Question 14

What did Protestant sect aim to do

Answer 14

1560 purify the church

Question 15

Why did the Protestants want to purify the church

Answer 15

Return to simpler forms of worship

Question 16

What did they do to Protestants

Answer 16

Persecuted them in England

Question 17

What happened in 1608 and how long did it go on for

Answer 17

William Bradford led puritans to holland till 1620

Question 18

Why did they leave

Answer 18

Fraud they were going to turn Dutch and lose identity a British Protestants

Question 19

What is the city upon a hill

Answer 19

Puritans believed they were gods chosen people like the Jews
Jews persecuted in Egypt , puritans persecuted by British religious groups
Jews crossed desert to go to promised land puritans crossed Atlantic to go to new world
Bulging city upon a hill to show people how to live

Question 20

Why did puritans think humans were evil

Answer 20

Because of Adam and eves original sin we are born into sin

Question 21

Elect and unregenerate

Answer 21

Those predestined for salvation

Larger group of people who are evil

Question 22

Two possible signs you are elect

Answer 22

Intensely spiritual experience in which you felt the spirit of god come over you
Living a Christ like life

Question 23

Mayflower compact

Answer 23

First sign of democracy in new world
How they would govern themselves when they got to the new world
Precursor to Declaration of Independence and BOR

Question 24

What did the puritans believe about the bible

Answer 24

It is the literal word of god

Question 25

What did puritans value and why

Answer 25

Education because you needed to be able to read the word of god and engage in theological discussion because if not you are going to hell

Question 26

What did the puritans found

Answer 26

1636 Harvard college 16 years after arrived to train Puritan ministers for an expanding colony

Question 27

What did they bring to new world

Answer 27

Printing press in c.1639

Question 28

What did they write

Answer 28

Diaries poetry sermons diaries to record work of god

Question 29

Who wrote the first diary

Answer 29

William Bradford ; of Plymouth plantation

Question 30

Cotton Mather

Answer 30

1663 1728 | Puritan minister first scientist in the new world

Question 31

April 1721

Answer 31

Ship from West Indies came to the port in Boston harbor and introduced small pox

Question 32

What did puritans believe the cause of sickness was

Answer 32

Sin

Question 33

What idea did Mather have

Answer 33

Inoculation from Turkish doctor | Nod began public campaign

Question 34

How did Boston medical community react

Answer 34

Violently opposed and bombed Mather's house Muslim culture ere unregenerate

Question 35

Inoculation results

Answer 35

6,000 people contracted 850 died 300 people inoculated: 6 died CLOSE MINDED

Question 36

What was rationalism a byproduct of

Answer 36

Age on enlightenment / reason in eighteenth and seventeenth centuries

Question 37

What is rationalism

Answer 37

Elites that you can arrive at truth through logical though | Do not need to rely on church , traditions of the past or intuition

Question 38

Sir Isaac Newton

Answer 38

1642 -1727 God as a clockmaker God does not intervene in world Explains evil

Question 39

Why did rationalists believe human nature is essentially good?

Answer 39

We have a benevolent god hat gave us all ability to think so that we can discover truth and be happy

Question 40

Deism

Answer 40

Spiritual implications of rationalism

Question 41

American Revolutionary War

Answer 41

1775-1783 Battles were fought in winter Valley forge

Question 42

1776

Answer 42

Declared independence from Great Britain

Question 43

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Answer 43

Quintessential work of American rationalism