Quarter 1 Final Flashcards
(36 cards)
What are 5 quotes from Poor Richard’s Almanac?
1) There are no gains without pains.
2) God gives all things to industry.
3) One today is worth two tomorrows.
4) Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
5) He that speaks much is much mistaken.
Who wrote the Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote A Model of Christianity?
John Winthrop
Who wrote of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
Who wrote What Is an American?
Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
What stories (letters) did Benjamin Franklin write?
1) Letter to Joseph Priestly
2) Something of My Religion
Who wrote the Age of Reason?
Thomas Paine
Who wrote Religion…My Views of It..
Thomas Jefferson
What is the Enlightenment?
The one hundred plus years from the 1680s to the 1790s. The beginnings are marked in Britain by the Glorious Revolution in 1688 which repudiated Stuart autocracy and ushered in religious toleration. The End of the Enlightenment is best linked to the realization of its ideals in the revolutions of France and America in the last quarter of the 18th century which, of course, led to its own reaction seen in the Romantic movement of the 19th century.
What was Thomas Paine’s philosophy?
Paine said
1) “I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
2) I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
3) All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
Talk about Ben Franklin
Alright, he best represents the spirit of the Enlightenment. He depended on first and experience. Speculative about the nature of the universe, on religion which preferred to watch human behavior rather than debate unportable theology.
Who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac?
Ben Franklin
what is Deism?
1) Values of progress: from religion to science
2) Deduced the existence of God from the construction of the universe, not the Bible.
3) When people are born, they are given a blank slate and they make there own morals.
4) God: cloth/watch maker, God made laws to be understood by the people, started the world and pressed “start” then watched it to see what happens.
Summarize what Deism
The name given to enlightenment religion in which religious superstition is replaced by a rational religion in which God Becomes no more than the Supreme intelligence or craftsmen who had set the machine that was the world according to its own natural and scientifically predictable laws. This deism was inherently anticlerical and deeply suspicious of religious fanaticism and persecution.
What were the three important forces that influenced colonial Puritanism?
1) The social system of 17th century England
2) Calvinism
3) The New England Environment
Talk about Henry the 8th
Married Catherine of Aragon. Henry wanted a son but Catherine couldn’t give him one. wants a divorce; spain pressures Pope Clement VII to delay to avoid humiliation to catherine and Spain. Then he falls in love with Anne Bolin who gives him Elizabeth the 1st, so he decides to divorce catherine without consent. henry severs ties with Catholic church, seizes Church lands, and dissolves _________. this is a reformation, a cleansing of the Church.
Talk about the Renaissance
Flowered in england on the ascension of henry the 8th. arriving from italy, the renaissance was a rebirth of letters and art stimulated by the recovery and study of texts from classical antiquity which were stuffed for moral, political, and philosophical truths and for moral values.
Talk about Puritanism
There were three different levels, Church and state were closely related, they had no intention of establishing a community based on democratic equality, puritan leaders came from the middle class, they were accustomed to looking down on lower classes,
Background on William Bradford
One of the original Dutch/Mayflower pilgrims
Dedicated Of Plymouth Plantation to God’s place in history
Writes in “Plaine Style” to tell “simple truth” (an account of the actions of the new Israelites)
Everything is a sign of God’s hand (Xian millennium)
Takes shape of a “Jeremiad”
What work of Thomas Paine’s proved he was a deist, and how?
The age of reason: he says he believes in God, but because every account of people hearing from God is a second-hand account, he does not have to (nor does he) believe it.
What work of Ben Franklin proved he was a deist, and how?
“Something of my religion”: believed Jesus was a good man, but not necessarily divine. He believes in God and that He should be worshipped, and that the human soul is immortal.
What work of Jeffersons showed he was a deist, and how?
” religion… My views of it…” & “the Jefferson bible”: took out any parts of the bible that had any kind of miracle or thing that could not be proved by science and reason. (A true enlightenment thinker)
What is “What is an American?” about?
Well, its written by Crevecoeur. Talks about people moving to America where the land is peaceful and free. Machines and factories don’t own the town, people do. People are moving from Europe to America. They are a new person when they reach America, their social class gets left behind.
