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US History Key Terms (SBU)
Lecture 6
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Undergraduate 1
10/05/2011

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Enlightenment
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a philosophical movement of the 18th century that emphasized the use of reason to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions and that brought about many humanitarian reforms
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Renaissance
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the humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe

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Copernicus
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proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it
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Isaac Newton
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found the law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion
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John Locke
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was a seventeenth-century English philosopher and social activist concerned primarily with governance, political theory, epistemology,and religious tolerance; lived in England during the Enlightenment
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Adam Smith
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was a Scottish political economist, lecturer and essayist who is principally known for having authored An Inquiry into the Cause of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) during the Enlightenment
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Voltaire
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was a prolific writer, philosopher, poet and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment
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Deism
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refers to the eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason—rather than revelation—should form the basis of religion
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Republic of Letters
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a group of intellects in America who wrote letters to Europe in an effort to keep up with the changing ideas and times
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Republicanism
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the belief that political power should reside in a few patriotic, landowning men
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Great Awakening
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 is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious activity, primarily in Great Britain and her North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
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Jonathan Edwards
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 was a colonial American preacher and theologian. He was a prominent leader of the east-coast revivals of the 1730s and 1740s known as the Great Awakening; known for the popular sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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the popular sermon during the awakening preached by Jonathan Edwards; known for its vivid descriptions and imagery  
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George Whitefield
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was an English evangelist whose preaching in America climaxed the religious revival known as the Great Awakening
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Anti-Materialism
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the belief people had become for too concerned with material wealth
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Spiritual Egalitarianism
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the belief that everyone should have access to leadership in the church and has something to contribute; also called "Priesthood of Congregation";
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Old Light/New Light
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one refers to the church members who were for the Great Awakening while the others wanted to stick to the old way
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