Unit 2 Test Review: Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Which enlightenment ideal counters original sin/pre-destination, a belief of the Puritans?

Which enlightenment ideal counters Divine Authority, and essential component of Bradford and Winthrop's plan to unify their communities?

Which enlightenment ideal counters the need for purified communities of mutually supporting Christians?

__________ engages the audience by opening his text with a reflection from the viewpoint of someone who has just stepped on to American soil.

__________ engages the audience by opening his text with the acknowledgment of false ideas and expectations about American life that are circulating Europe.

Identify the characterization of sympathy and work ethic in America: “The almost general mediocrity of fortune that prevails in America obliging its people to follow some business for subsistence, those vices, that arise usually from idleness, are in a great measure prevented. Industry and constant employment are great preservatives of the morals and virtue of a nation…to this it may be truly added, that serious religious, under its various denominations, is not only tolerated, but respected and practiced. Atheism is unknown there; infidelity (lack of religious belief) rare and secret…”

Identify the characterization of tabula rasa, sympathy and work ethic in America: "Here religion demands but little of him...The American is a new main , who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labor, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence--This is an American."

"Great American Asylum" and "melting of a new race of men" are descriptors of America given by:

"Land of labor" is a descriptor of America given by:

Edwards organizes his sermon using:

Edwards refers to 'sinners' as:

______ relied on inspirational statements like "the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph" to call for unity and minimize the devastation America was enduring in battle.

______ relied on legal insight to justify the complaints from citizens that only elitist issues were being prioritized.

______ expresses some of Bradford's divine authority rhetoric as his "secret opinion" that God will not allow people who have made a good effort to perish in war.

______ argues that one of the difficulties of avoiding factions is that conflicting point of views are a part of human nature.