Puritan jeopardy

Puritan History

Puritan Beliefs

Of Plymouth Plantation

Sinners in Hands of

Angry God

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JEOPARDY!

It’s what the Puritans were

called when they traveled

to the New World.

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Who are the Pilgrims?

It’s the year the Puritans

arrived in the New World.

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What is 1620?

It’s the reason they left England

for the New World.

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What is religious freedom?

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What is suffering

Persecution?

It’s about how many Puritan colonists from the Mayflower

died during the first winter

in the New World.

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What is half?

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What is about 50?

It’s the sacrament Puritans

believed was necessary to

wipe away Original Sin.

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What is baptism?

It’s the reason Puritans wanted

all of their children to be educated.

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What is to be able to read the Bible?

It’s the other purpose through

which God reveals himself besides the Bible and Divine Providence.

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What is the natural world?

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What is nature?

To a Puritan, when a person has been “reborn” into the community

of saints, the person has been _____ by _____.

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What is Graced by God?

Puritans believed that

“idle hands” led to this.

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What is the “Devil’s Playground”?

It’s the Puritan belief that God

decided a person’s path in life and decided if the person would be saved

before the person was born.

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What is predestination?

Besides disease and the cold, it was the greatest danger to the Puritans

during their early months at Plymouth in the New World.

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What is starvation?

It’s the type of literature “Of Plymouth Plantation” is since it was written by Bradford, who

experienced everything firsthand.

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What is a primary source?

It’s who Bradford attributes the Puritans’ safe arrival to in the text.

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Who is God?

It’s what the six terms between

the Puritans and the Indians

can best be compared to.

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What is a peace treaty ?

In the beginning of the text, Bradford calls the Indians “savage

barbarians,” but in the end he refers to them as _____.

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Who are allies?

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Who are (peaceful) friends?

It’s who Edwards says can protect people from the miseries of Hell.

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Who is God?

It’s evident in the text that

Edwards believes that all

humans have committed _____.

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What is sin?

It’s the name of the religious movement in the 1740s that

prompted Edwards to write and give his sermon.

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What is the Great Awakening?

The best idea of the sermon can be summed up by saying that

Edwards believes people are in terrible danger from the anger of God unless they are _____ _____.

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What is born again?

It’s what Jonathon Edwards

died from.

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What is smallpox?

The reason John Proctor confessed, in court, to being a lecher

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What is to discredit Abby and to save his innocent wife?

The reason the Putnams’ daughter Ruth “conveniently” testified

against George Jacobs

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What is because her father, Thomas Putnam, wanted to buy the

deceased Jacobs’ land?

The reason Elizabeth Proctor claimed there were no witches

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What is because she knew she could not be a witch (and she was

accused)?

In the play’s deleted scene (one that the movie partially included), the

reason John Proctor met with Abigail in the woods

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What is to threaten her if she did not take back her accusation against

Elizabeth?

The reason Reverend John Hale decides to return to the court after

he quits

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What is to make up for some of the wrong he’d felt he had done and to

save the innocent souls left?