Question 2 The Puritans were a Protestant sect who believed that the Protestant

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Question 2

The Puritans were a Protestant sect who believed that the Protestant Reformation should ________________ the Catholic Church.

apologize to

maintain a close relationship to

mirror itself after

break away more forcefully from

Question 3

The Massachusetts Bay Colony imagined their new settlement as a City upon a Hill, that the whole world would ____________ and ____________.

despise/attack

love/adore

criticize/reject

admire/copy

Question 4

The fact that the Puritans believed themselves to be on an “errand into the wilderness” reveals that:

all of these

they believed they had settlers rights to the land

they did not believe that native peoples had recognizable human rights

they did not believe that North America was civilized

Question 5

Puritans were so radical in their beliefs that they even persecuted their fellow Christians. Which of the following religious groups were persecuted by the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Baptists

Quakers

all of these

Anglicans

Question 6

When Robert Bellah uses the term “civil religion,” he is drawing on the work of which European philosopher?

David Hume

Immanuel Kant

Jacques Rousseau

George Freidrich Hegel

Question 7

Civil religion refers to:

religion that encourages the teaching of civic engagement

religious nationalism that understands the nation as sacred

none of these

the idea that the nation must be civilized by religion

Question 8

The motto of the United States, E Pluribis Unum means:

out of many, one

out of one, many

and plurality only

pluralism is the bedrock of the nation

Question 9

Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity” sets up the idea that the Puritans are on a God sanctioned mission to settle North America. Since then, the idea of God’s provenance over America has been used to justify:

Manifest Destiny (settling the American West)

all of these

the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan

the erasure of Native American peoples and cultures

Question 10

How many different Native American nations existed on the eve of British colonialism in what was to become the United States?

140-160

1000-1500

4000-6000

40-60

apologize to

maintain a close relationship to

Explanation / Answer

Puritans were religious non-conformists who felt that the religious norms in England were very hostile and the churches were very closely associated to Catholicism. The Puritans were a Protestant sect who believed that the Protestant Reformation should break away more forcefully from the Catholic Church. The Puritans left England because they did not conform to the religious beliefs of the Catholic Church.

Thus, the correct answer is option, D.

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