Unit 1

Question 1

what are the three aspects of puritan influence that continue today?

Answer 1

• emphasis on the work ethic
• goal centered
• subservience of pleasure to duty

Question 2

what was the first English settlement?

Answer 2

Jamestown, Virginia

Question 3

What were the two things that sustained the pilgrims through hardships?

Answer 3

• their will to succeed

- confidence in God’s providence

Question 4

what was the main motive for migration?

Answer 4

religion

Question 5

what were some other motives for migration?

Answer 5

• adventure
• to help England challenge Spain’s claim to North America
• to gain personal independence and wealth

Question 6

What were the secular reasons for migration?

Answer 6

• the American dream

- hundreds of people sold themselves into bondage to pay their way to the colonies

Question 7

who were the two leading figures of the great awakening?

Answer 7

Johnathan Edwards and George Whitefield

Question 8

Why was puritanism declining?

Answer 8

• secular values were replacing religious ones
• spiritual fever had declined
• material prosperity brought worldly interest and goals

Question 9

what did deism maintain?

Answer 9

the solution to mans problems lies in human reason rather than the supernatural revelation of the bible.

Question 10

What do deist believe?

Answer 10

God created the world, but he does not interfere with it. They believe in a after life where good will be rewarded and evil actions will be punished. They believe man is not flawed or fallen, but can pleases God in good works.

Question 11

How do deist describe God?

Answer 11

• the great first cause

- clock winder

Question 12

what influenced the constitution?

Answer 12

the separatist theory of government

Question 13

Why did we have to abandon English literature?

Answer 13

we had to build American literature

Question 14

What did 18th century writings present?

Answer 14

a secular view of life

Question 15

What spoke after the revolutionary war?

Answer 15

American voice

Question 16

What was made for instruction?

Answer 16

American literature

Question 17

What did modern critics do to puritan writings?

Answer 17

unjustly criticized it as lacking artsy

Question 18

What was John Smith’s famous work?

Answer 18

a general history

Question 19

What was unexpected when Smith was captured?

Answer 19

the Indians offered friendship and provisions

Question 20

What is the reoccurring theme of 17th century literature?

Answer 20

God provides the needs of his people

Question 21

According to Smith, what are the most important things to least important things?

Answer 21

1. God
2. King
3. Country
4. Themselves

Question 22

According to Smith, what is the primary motivation to convert the Indians?

Answer 22

religion rather than honor or prosperity

Question 23

What was John Smith?

Answer 23

an adventurist

Question 24

What was William Byrd II?

Answer 24

a 18th century aristocrat

Question 25

What was William Byrd II associated with?

Answer 25

the colony of Virginia

Question 26

What does Byrd translate?

Answer 26

homer and the bible

Question 27

What was Byrd completely honest about?

Answer 27

- quarrels - sleeping in church - temper - neglect of prayer - lustful thoughts - gambling losses

Question 28

What was Byrd's observation?

Answer 28

the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina

Question 29

Why did William Bradford begin to write "Out of Plymouth Plantation"?

Answer 29

because he feared the Massachusetts bay colony would overshadow the Plymouth colony

Question 30

What was Bradford's attitude of the man getting thrown overboard?

Answer 30

respectful of God's providential care

Question 31

What was the biblical allusion to Moses viewing the promise land?

Answer 31

the emphasize that the pilgrims, unlike Moses, they had no certain hope that the land offered plenty

Question 32

What did John Winthrop's journal focus on?

Answer 32

God's providential care for the colonist

Question 33

What was the primary focus of the laws of the Massachusetts bay colony?

Answer 33

Leviticus

Question 34

What did Cotton Mather compare Winthrop to?

Answer 34

the character of nehmiah

Question 35

What does Winthrop's journal focus on?

Answer 35

the Massachusetts bay colonies religious policies as they affected political and social matters

Question 36

What were the implication of civil and federal liberty?

Answer 36

- goods and risked - same liberty as Christ - legit authority

Question 37

What do animals and humans have?

Answer 37

natural liberty

Question 38

What was letters of Boston?

Answer 38

letters to Winthrop's wife about sea travel

Question 39

What does Mary Rowlandson's account represent?

Answer 39

- the attitude of the colonist toward Indians - the colonist reliance of the bible on difficult times - the dangers of colonial life

Question 40

When did Mary's captivity take place?

Answer 40

during King Philip's war

Question 41

What is Samuel Sewall referred to?

Answer 41

first Yankee

Question 42

What does Sewall's diary include?

Answer 42

his public and private life, as well as what he did and thought

Question 43

How does Sewall end his diary entry?

Answer 43

reflecting on heaven and a house not made with his hands

Question 44

What is phenomena?

Answer 44

a pamphlet on the meaning of revelation