AP US History Touart- Religion in America
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ptouart on May 21, 2012
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AP US McGarvey 2012, Mr. Touart's AP US History Class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Father Serra | devoted to Christianize 300,000 native Californians |
| Pope's Rebellion | Pueblo rebels destroyed every Catholic church in province and killed many priests |
| Bartolemeu de las Casas | Spanish missionary, encomienda system in Hispanola and called it moral pestilence invented by Satan |
| encomienda | allowed gov't to give native Americans to certain colonists in return to Christianize them |
| Deism | relied on reason rather than revalation, on science rather than the Bible |
| Unitarians | held that God existed in only one person and not the Trinity |
| Second Great Awakening | reaction to the growing Liberalism in religion in 1800s, roaring revivals, evangelicalism, and new sects of Christianity came from this |
| Great Awakening | exploded in 1730s and 40s and swept through the colonies like a fire |
| Jonathan Edwards | "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was his sermon |
| George Whitefield | evangelical preacher who was known for his voice and his sermons that he could preach to thousands of people |
| Arminianism | named after Jacobus Arminius who preached that individual free will not divine decree determined a person's eternal fate and that all humans not just the elect could be saved if they accepted God's grace |
| Peter Cartwright | best known of the Methodist "circuit riders" or traveling frontier preachers |
| Charles Finney | greatest of the revival prachers, eventually served as president of Oberlin College |
| Burned-Over District | western New York where people preached "hellfire and damnation" |
| Joseph Smith | man who said he received gold plates from angels which contributed to his book "Book of Mormons" in which the Mormons or Church of Jesus Christ-Latter Day Saints was launched |
| Bringham Young | man who took the Mormons to Utah |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | help contribute to the short lived 18th Amendment which required prohibition |
| Scopes Monkey Trial | John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution; William Jennings Bryan, a Presbyterian Fundamentalist, joined the prosecution. Scopes was defended by Darrow who made Bryan seem like a fool |
| Fundamentalism | emphasis on literal reading tof the Bible, strong in Baptist churches |
| The Man Nobody Knows | said that Jesus was the best advertising man, said that Jesus was the greatest man of all time, written by Bruce Barton |
| Moral Majority | Jerry Falwell's, an evangelical minister, idea |
| Engel v. Vitale | separation of church and state meant that public schools could not require prayer or Bible reading |
| Black Legend | false concept held that the conqueres merely tortured and butchered the native Americans, stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left them in misery |
| Maryland | founded by Lord Baltimore and was a refuge for Catholics |
| Predestination | said that God hadd already decided where a person was going |
| Puritans | English reformers who undertook a total purification of English Christianity |
| Separitists | vowed to break away entirely from Church of England |
| Antinomianism | founded my Anne Hutchinson that states that the saved did not need to obey the law of God or man |
| Penn | founded Pennsylvania and was the most tollerant to the Quakers |
| Half-Way Covenant | modified the covenant of the agreement in the church and its adherants to admit to baptism but not to , A Puritan church document; In 1662, it allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from the regular members; Women soon made up a larger portion of Puritan congregations. |
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