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The occupation of Mary Rowlandson’s husband

  Author described:  Rational, practical, interested in the world, I represented the essence of the eighteenth century. I was able to retire at age 42 because of my shrewd business sense. I enjoyed inventing and making the quality of life better for everyone. I spent many years as a diplomat in England and France and participated in the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I was never president although my image is on one of the U. S. bills. Philadelphia was the city where I lived.

  Identify: This first American treaty with the Wampanoag people, was faithfully kept for fifty-four years, until 1675, when Metacomet, or King Philip, began attacks that became known as King Philip’s War. This war is the one that includes the events described by Mary Rowlandson.  

  Author described:   I was educated in England, having been sent to school there when I was only seven. I remained in England until I was twenty-two at which time I returned to the New World to take my place as a colonial leader. My mansion in Virginia was named Westover. I founded the city of Richmond. I was important in establishing the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia.

Identify the speaker:  “O, ye nominal Christians! might not an African ask you–Learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you? Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice? . . . Why are parents to lose their children, brothers their sisters, or husbands their wives? . . .”

  The question that Benjamin Franklin asked himself every morning as he relates in The Autobiography.  

  Identify the philosophy:  Redemption was a gift of God’s saving grace according to this religious view, given to those predestined to receive it. It followed Calvin’s idea of predestination and grace with special emphasis on the doctrine of original depravity with all human beings deserving damnation. These people saw everything as the complete will of God. Those who would be saved and those who would be damned were decided at creation, and no human could change the predestined condition. Those who were saved were saved only because of the grace of the Creator. 

The name of Al(OH)3 is ________.

One of the main features of ancient Greek theatres was a circular playing or “dancing place.” This circular playing area was called the __________.

The seating or “seeing place” in an ancient Greek theatre was called the _________.