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| 958565290 | The Enlighenment | Period in the history of western thought and culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, characterized by dramatic revolutions in science, philosophy, society and politics; these revolutions swept away the medieval world-view and ushered in our modern western world. | 0 | |
| 958565291 | Jonathan Edwards | American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758) | 1 | |
| 958565292 | George Whitefield | (1739) Stressed that God was all powerful and would save only those who openly professed faith in Christ Jesus. Taught that with sincere faith, ordinary people could understand scripture without ministers | 2 | |
| 958565293 | The Great Awakening | This was a major religious revival in the colonies, which began in the 1730's with its leader being Jonathan Edwards. | 3 | |
| 958565294 | Old Lights | Orthodox clergymen who were deeply skeptical of the emotionalism and the antics of the Great Awakening. | 4 | |
| 958565295 | New Lights | Clergymen who defended the Great Awakening for reinvigorating American religion | 5 | |
| 958565296 | Slave codes | Slave codes were laws in each US state. | 6 | |
| 958565297 | The French and Indian War | A war with the French and Indians versus the British and other Indian tribes over the Ohio River Valley. | 7 | |
| 958565298 | Marquis Duquesne | a French Governor of New France.served from 1752 through 1755, and is best known for his role in the French and Indian War. | 8 | |
| 958565299 | The Proclamation of 1763 | Forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. | 9 | |
| 958565300 | Deism | 18th Century (1700's) concept which held that God created the world according to rational laws and that he was like a clockmaker who would not interfere in the natural order of things. | 10 | |
| 958565301 | Huguenots | Calvin's followers in France | 11 | |
| 958565302 | John Locke and Sir Issac Newton | Enlightenment philosophers. | 12 | |
| 958565303 | Fort Duquesne | French fort that was site of first major battle of French and Indian War; General Washington led unsuccessful attack on French troops and was then defeated at Fort Necessity, marking beginning of conflict. | 13 | |
| 958565304 | Elmina | established 1492; a town situated In Africa it was the First of the slave factories, built by the portuguese. this defended African trade against the British, Dutch, And French African slaves went here before they were transported to the new world. | 14 | |
| 958565305 | Salem witch trials | The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. | 15 | |
| 958565306 | Religious pluralism | Accepting all religions as having an equal right to co-exist | 16 | |
| 958565307 | Indentured servants | Indentured servitude was a form of debt bondage, established in the early years of the American colonies and elsewhere. | 17 | |
| 958565308 | Half-Way Covenant | A Puritan church document; In 1662, the Halfway Covenant allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the | 18 | |
| 958565309 | Nathaniel Bacon | Planter who led a rebellion in 1676 against the governor of the Virginia Colony | 19 |
