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FIWGA Flashcards

1
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Where does it begin?

A

New England and Western mass

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2
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List three new ideas of the great awakening

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One. Focus on personal relationship with God
Two. God doesn’t hate you he’s just angry at you
Three. You can reach heaven by reviving salvation from Jesus Christ

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3
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These are ideas are different from the Puritans because…

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Puritans believed you can only get to heaven by doing good

God created the world but didn’t communicate with the people

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4
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List two new religious denominations found in the colonies

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Baptist and Methodist

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Who was Jonathan Edwards?

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A preacher from Western mass

he was also considered the founder of the great awakening

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6
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What is the name of Jonathan Edwards famous work?

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Sinners in the hands of an angry God

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Who was George Whitefield?

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A British orator became the biggest celebrity of the great awakening

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Why was George Whitefield called and itinerant preacher?

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He was the first known traveling preacher

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9
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Why were public schools not common in the colonies?

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Children were needed on farms and larger towns had grammar schools to teach reading

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What was the only purpose of schools?

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Reading

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Why did girls not attend school?

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In the future girls weren’t going to have a job that required reading

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12
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Why did people in the colonial era attend college?

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To become a lawyer or minister

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Who could attend college?

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The very wealthy only

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What are the names of the only three colleges that existed prior to the great awakening?

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Harvard Yale William and Mary

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What are the names of the five new colleges founded during the great awakening?

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Columbia Princeton brown Rutgers Dartmouth

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What was the important ideas that came from the great awakening that influence the colonies?

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The idea to challenge authority
church changed to suit better peoples
These ideas would be important when the colonies seek independence from Britain

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17
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What was the French and Indian war a part of?

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The seven years war

18
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What were the two sides in this war?

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Britain and France

19
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Why is it called the French and Indian war?

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The French and Indians were allies fighting together against the British

20
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What was the issue that caused this war?

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Competition Over land in the Ohio Valley

21
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Why were the two sides competing for this?

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Fur trade plus farmland equals money

22
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What did French soldiers establish the 1750s?

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Fort Duquesne

23
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When did the war officially begin?

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1753

24
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Who was sent by the British to warn the French to leave the area?

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George Washington

25
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What did Washington hope to do with his Virginia militia?

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Capture Fort Duquesne

26
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Why was Washington unable to accomplish this?

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The fort was too strong

27
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What does Washington build instead?

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Fort necessity

28
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Who is Edward Braddock?

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A British general

29
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What is Braddoks plan? How does it work out?

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His plan is to march into Ft. Duquesne and take the fort

30
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What happens to Fort necessity? What about Washington?

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It was destroyed and they told Washington to go home and not build any more Forts

31
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Who is Joseph Brant?

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A Mohawk Indian

32
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What is Joseph Brants important in this war?

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He convinces many Native American tribes to ditch the French and join the British

33
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How does this affect the war?

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It turns the tides of the war

34
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How does William Pitt help turn the tide of the war?

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He teaches the British guerrilla warfare

35
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How does the British honor pitt after capturing fort Duquesne?

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They rename it Fort Pitt

36
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What is pitts other major idea?

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To tax the colonists to pay for war

37
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Where does the final battle of the war take place? What year?

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Quebec 1759

38
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Who are the leaders from each side?

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Joseph wolf versus general Marquis de Montcalm

39
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Who wins this battle? What happens to boths leaders?

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Josef Wolfe wins but they both eventually die

40
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What are the lasting effects of the war?

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A. Relations were not good between Indians and British
B. Victory gave British stronger hold on the colonies and colonists
C. The colonists would soon get tired of the British influence

41
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What was the name of the peace treaty? What are the terms

A

Treaty of Paris 1763
A. French give up all land in North America to the Mississippi river including Canada
B. Spain who had helped the French had to give up Florida

42
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What is the great awakening?

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The great awakening is a spiritual revival that begins in the 1700s

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