Revolutionary era test

Question 1

when was the enlightenment?

Answer 1

1687- 1804

Question 2

What starts the enlightenment?

Answer 2

Newton’s publication of the Principia Mathematica

Question 3

what are the characteristics of the enlightenment?

Answer 3

Stressed rationality, and questioning and uses evidence and rationality to learn how the world works

Question 4

Adam smith importance

Answer 4

Was influential in the British enlightenment, stressed supply and demand and was the intellectual father of capitalism

Question 5

John locke importance

Answer 5

Influential in the British enlightenment, he’s stressed the government protection of natural rights, social contract theory, tabula rasa, and was known as the father of liberalism

Question 6

Rene Decartes importance

Answer 6

Influential in the French enlightenment, I can think therefore I am

Question 7

Voltaire importance

Answer 7

Influential in French enlightenment, stressed civil liberties, free-speech, and the tolerant of other religions

Question 8

Rousseau importance

Answer 8

Influential in French enlightenment, I stressed social contract, state of nature versus civil society, and republicanism

Question 9

What is deism?

Answer 9

religious philosophy related to the enlightenment, a way for historians to define religious beliefs of enlightenment thinkers, God created the laws of the world and those laws carry themselves out i.e. God is a clockmaker.

Question 10

where did the great awakening mostly take place

Answer 10

southern US

Question 11

what is the great awakening

Answer 11

a religious revival in the United States, challenged traditional sources of authority, made people instruments of their own salvation

Question 12

new lights vs old lights

Answer 12

old lights are more conservative in their thinking and more accepting of materialism- paint new lights as radicals. new lights are not okay with new acquisitive mindset, some were very radical, some not so much.

Question 13

itinerant preachers

Answer 13

preachers who weren’t tied down to a church, preachers who travel from town to town preaching

Question 14

who was Jonathan Edwards

Answer 14

new light, influential in the great awakening

Question 15

George Whitefield

Answer 15

very engaging and very popular English itinerant preacher known as the the “Great Itinerant”

Question 16

how many africans in slave trade

Answer 16

9-10 million

Question 17

what is chattel slavery

Answer 17

slavery in which the slaves are treated as inhuman property

Question 18

effects of sugar

Answer 18

Sugar became the dominant crop in the western hemisphere and grew in only warm climates.

Question 19

conspicuous consumption

Answer 19

Middle-class families buying goods so that they can show off that they can afford these goods

Question 20

When was the slave trade abolished by Britain

Answer 20

1807

Question 21

Main ideas of common sense

Answer 21

Thomas Paine argues for the value of material success in the revolution and argues that because Britain is their mother country, it is much worse that they are abusing them.

Question 22

Main ideas of Franklins virtues

Answer 22

He equates literacy with success along with discipline. He argues that people are plastic and easily changed. In this document he writes a list of 13 virtues that he believes you need to succeed.

Question 23

crevecoeur main ideas

Answer 23

He argues that the poor in America aren’t as poor than the poor in Britain because they own their own land and keep the money they make

Question 24

federalist one main ideas

Answer 24

Hamilton lays out logical arguments and believes that the listeners should choose what they want to believe. This is a an introduction for the Federalist papers and believes that the anti-federalist make irrational, emotion-based arguments

Question 25

federalist ten main ideas

Answer 25

Madison argues that factions are not possible to ban unless everyone believes the same thing or their freedom is violated. He believes that democracies are more acceptable to Tierney that republics and are used for a large republic because that leads to more competition among ideas.

Question 26

Jefferson main ideas

Answer 26

Jefferson argues that slavery is bad because it turns white people into tyrants which leads to slave revolt which is not good for the white people. He thinks that it is good to know about the world and where he lives but does it in a way where he only thinks about himself, disregarding other cultures cultural importance.

Question 27

Equiano and the abolitionist movement main ideas

Answer 27

Equiano’s main reason for writing this passage was to make white women in the north and in the middle class who are Christian respond to his emotional arguments. He sees white people as uncivilized and terrifying which alarms his audience