Puritans | Other Denominations | The Great Awakening | Church Polity | Great Awakening results |
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What are Catholic practices?
The Puritans wanted to purify the Anglican church of these.
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What is Anglican?
The most important denomination in the southern colonies.
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What is a spiritual revival?
The Great Awakening, which swept the colonies in the 18th century, was one of these.
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What is church government?
The meaning of church polity.
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What is the growth of church membership?
The result that put more people in church pews.
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What is Salem?
The town that became infamous for its witch trials
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What is Maryland?
The colony founded as a refuge for Catholics
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Who is Jonathan Edwards?
A brilliant theologian from Massachusetts who was the primary American leader of the Great Awakening.
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What is Episcopal?
The type of polity where a top leader appoints the lower down positions.
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What is the equality of all men?
The idea emphasized by the Great Awaking.
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What is innocent?
The only people executed during the witch trials.
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What is Pennsylvania?
The colony founded as a refuge for Quakers.
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Who is George Whitfield?
An English preacher who was a leader of the Great Awakening in both Britain and the colonies.
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What is Presbyterian?
Type of polity where the people choose their pastors, then the pastors choose the elders and up to the head of the church
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What are laymen?
The people who gained a greater participation in church government because of the Great Awakening.
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What are Puritan ministers?
These men tried to stop the witch trials.
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What are Huguenots?
French protestants.
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What is 1720 - 1760?
The years of the Great Awakening.
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What is Congregational?
Type of polity where each church chose its own leaders and voted on the issues.
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What are the freedoms of speech and assembly, and the freedom of worship?
The three freedoms strengthened because of the Great Awakening.
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What is the half-way covenant?
It was an indication of the Puritan decline which allowed the children of church members to become members even though they were not truly saved.
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What are Mennonites?
The largest group of Anabaptists in the colonies.
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What is Anglican?
The denomination least affected by the Great Awakening.
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What is Congregational?
This type of polity gave its members the most freedom
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What is national unity?
The colonies had an added sense of this.
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