Chapter 5 People

Question 1

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 1

Congregational preacher of Massachusetts who helped spark the Great Awakening, preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Question 2

George Whitfield

Answer 2

English evangelist who had the greatest impact on America during the Great Awakening, preached over 18,000 times

Question 3

David Brainerd

Answer 3

Best known missionary to the Indians

Question 4

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 4

First black woman poet in America

Question 5

George Washington

Answer 5

Young colonial officer in the Virginia Rangers who led the militia in the French and Indian War

Question 6

General Edward Braddock

Answer 6

Scotsman sent to America to lead British troops against the French

Question 7

George III

Answer 7

King of England who attempted to reduce Parliamentary power and bring the American colonies into subjection

Question 8

George Grenville

Answer 8

Prime minister who wanted to control the colonies, issued the Proclamation of 1763

Question 9

William Pitt the Elder

Answer 9

English statesman who fought for the colonists in Parliament, instrumental in the appeal of the Stamp Act

Question 10

Edmund Burke

Answer 10

Irish statesman who fought for the colonies in Parliament

Question 11

John and Charles Wesley

Answer 11

English brothers who organized the Methodist denomination in England