Monday, October 20, 2008

Homework

This is due on Friday, October 24.
Read pages 90-97.
Answer the following questions:
1. How was the Halfway Communion [Halfway Covenant] a move to address these tensions?
2. What was the First "Great Awakening?" Who brought it about? What groups in colonial society were most attracted to this religious movement?
3. Identify the differences between the "Old Lights" and the "New Lights."
4. What were the effects of the Great Awakening?
5. What was the Enlightenment? How did it differ from the Great Awakening?
6. What colonial colleges were in operation by 1763? Why was each founded, and what subjects were studied in the mid-18c?
7. What evidence was there that the influence of the Enlightenment was spreading in America?
8. Explain the working of the law in colonial America--the concepts on which it was based, and the way it functioned.

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