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| Winthrop says in his sermon that if the Puritans neglect or do not fulfill the articles of their covenant with the Lord, He will surely |
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break out in wrath against us, be revenged of such a perjured people, and make us know the price of the breach of such a covenant
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| In “The Prologue” Anne Bradstreet is forced to argue that she can be a good poet even though she is a |
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| The military conflict between the English colonists and the Native Americans (Wampanoags, Narragansetts, and Nipmucks) that Mrs. Rowlandson is caught up in is known as |
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The term used to indicate the “falling away from the faith and communitarian spirit of the original settlers” is |
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| “Atheistical, proud, wild, cruel, barbarous, brutish, (in one word) diabolical” is the description by Mrs. Rowlandson’s “friend” of |
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| The bullet that wounded Mrs. Rowlandson also struck, and caused the eventual death of, |
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In the sixteenth-century, those Anglicans who sought to simplify rituals, reduce the power of bishops, and reform the clergy to emphasize theological learning came to be called |
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| Shortly after she is captured, Mary Rowlandson in effect goes into the business of |
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| To a Puritan, being well off was a signs of ______ _____________. (probable election/salvation) |
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| More than once Mrs. Rowlandson takes pains to observe to her readers that never during her captivity did any Indian “offer the least abuse of |
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| Acording to Mrs. Rowlandson, all Indians have a “horrible addictiveness” to |
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The so-called Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock were not Puritans but rather |
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| Puritan “logic” determined wherever Indians opposed Puritans there |
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| The tribe nearly eliminated in a 1637 war was |
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| Slotkin tells us that in captivity narratives figures like Mrs. Rowlandson “symbolize |
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| “The values of Christianity and civilization…..” |
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| Paintings like “The Murder of Jane McCrea” were used by settlers as “justification for |
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| “the murder of indigenous people…” |
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| Washington is of the opinion that “We must take human nature |
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| What is worse than “a despotism,” Yates says, is |
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| Madison says that the rights of property originate in the “diversity in |
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| Madison defines a republic as |
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| a system of delegation/representation and enlarged extent |
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| The “Southern” reasoning about slavery, Madison says, may appear |
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| A little strained on some points |
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| The Nevada Constitution expressly bans |
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| Constitutionalism is the theory of |
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| The Bill of Rights protects American citizens from |
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| infringement of the government |
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| One of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights guarantees citizens of the United States of America the freedom from |
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There is nothing in the Bill of Rights about taxes; but any of the others would work here.
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| The Bill of Rights states that the government cannot deny its citizens the right to bear |
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| Visiting his English relatives, Franklin found that the family had lived in the same village and on the same farm for at least |
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| Franklin is connected to the early Puritans through his mother, who was the daughter of |
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| After giving two rolls of bread to a woman and child, Franklin tells us, he found rest in Philadelphia in a |
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| Being subject to “that hard to be governed passion of youth” that lures young men into “intrigues with low women,” Franklin escaped a “distemper” through, he says, |
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which of all things I dreaded, though by great good luck I escaped it.
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| Franklin says that it isn’t enough for a businessman to be industrious and frugal but that he must also |
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| avoid all appearances of the contrary |
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| Franklin asserts that his marriage was the long-overdue correction of an earlier |
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| According to Franklin, attendance at public worship is largely a matter of |
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| Franklin objects to a minister’s sermon because its aim is to make its hearers “Presbyterians” and not |
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| To achieve Humility, Franklin says that he, and we, should imitate Socrates and |
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| The poet with whom Franklin carouses while in London was named |
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| The basis of human nature, Crevecoeur tells us, is |
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| Franklin predicts that a century after he writes the greater number of English men will live |
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| The “school” of art with which Cole, Church, and Durand were associated was called the |
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| Many of the leaders of the American Revolution came from a colonial |
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| At the heart of the society developing in America over the first half of the nineteenth century was the concept of |
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| In America, Paine writes, THE LAW IS _ |
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| Emerson tells us that on the lintels of his doorpost he would write |
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| The Declaration of Independence accuses the King of England of setting on frontier settlers the |
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| “merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare is an underdistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions [of existence] __.” |
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| “That government is best,” Thoreau says, “which governs |
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| Jefferson says that love for blacks is less a “tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation” than it is a(n) |
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| The “American Adam” notion was not based on the view that the country was the product of a |
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| Webster says that young men should be educated so as to fit them for |
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| The business for which they are destined |
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| Haynes observes that nothing in the Bible says that a black man should be a |
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| Unlike other revolutions, the American Revolution did not rise out of but rather created a spirit of |
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| Tocqueville says that the majority provides Americans with ready-made |
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opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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| The source of most musical forms and ideas in America in the eighteenth century was |
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| Tocqueville feared that youthful artistic or literary talent would be strangled by |
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| The Enlightenment in both Europe and America replaced dependence on divine enlightenment with |
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| In his second inaugural address, Lincoln seems to suggest that the Civil War is God’s punishment of America for |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in those states |
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| Fitzhugh says that the happiest people in the world are |
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| Negro slaves in the South |
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| Nat Turner claimed that in a vision he was visited by |
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| Nat Turner was sentenced to be hung by the neck until he was |
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Dead! Dead! Dead! Seems picky but it will be important later.
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| According to the law enacted in Virginia in 1680, a slave who raised his hand “in opposition to a Christian” (sic) would receive |
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| T.R.R. Cobb argued that slavery as it exists in the Southern states was |
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| Not contrary to natural law |
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| Charles Dickens said that around the system of slavery there was an air of |
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ruin and decay abroad, which is inseparable from the system... There is no look of decent comfort anywhere.
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| Jefferson thought that “blacks” required less |
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| Slavery, Locke argued, was a continuation of |
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| the state of war between a lawful conqueror and a captive, in which the conqueror delays to take the life of the captive, and instead makes use of him |
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| "Another instance of our creative powers is our talent for slander; how ingenious are we at inventive scandal?" |
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| "The principles of democracy, then, are identical with the principles of Christianity." |
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| "O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now,have expanded far and wide; but alas! I posses nothing but moral capability-no teachings but the teaching of Holy Spirit." |
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| “It appears, then, that it is in America, alone, that women are raised to an equality with the other sex… They are made subordinate in station, only where a regard to their best interests demands it, while, as if in compensation for this, by custom and courtesy, they are always treated as superiors.” |
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| At length arrived at womanhood, the uncultivated fair one feels a void, which the employments allotted her are by no means capable of filling.” |
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| “We anti-suffragists stand for the conservation of the best of American womanhood… We do believe that woman has more power in uplifting civilization through the home than man does through the vote.” |
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| "The history of mankind is a history of repeatd injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." |
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| “Let it be clearly understood, then, that we are a woman’s rights Society; that we believe it is woman’s duty to speak wherever she feels the impression to do so; that it is her right to be present in all the councils of Church and State.” |
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| “To the women of America, in whose hands rest the real destinies of the republic, as moulded by the early training and preserved amid the maturer influences of home, this volume is affectionately inscribed.” |
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| “In the new code of laws…remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.” |
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