What is meant by the term ENLIGHTENMENT

This Act (1774 ) allowed British troops to be housed in occupied buildings.

 Directions:  Choose the appropriate answer identify the pattern or patterns in each reading.   England made three initial attempts at colonizing America with the 1587 Roanoke colony, 1607 Jamestown colony, and 1620 Plymouth colony. The French and Spanish colonies, how-ever, predated the English by several decades. In the 1500s, France began to actively colonize North America, and in 1513 and 1521, Juan Ponce de Leon led expeditions to Florida, claiming the territory for Spain. In the 1560s, French Protestants tried to establish two colonies on the Atlantic coast. The first one, in present-day South Carolina, was unsuccessful; its starving inhabitants had to be rescued by a passing ship. The second, which was established near present-day Jacksonville, Florida, was destroyed in 1564 by a Spanish army. The next year, in 1565, Spain sent Pedro Menendez de Aviles to build the city of St. Augustine, which today remains the oldest continuously inhabited European city in the United States. Afterward, the French concentrated their efforts further north. By the early 1600s, a large area that included not only Canada but also what is now America’s Great Lakes region and Mississippi River Valley was under French rule and named New France. (Sources of information: Carol Berkin et al., Making America, 3rd ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003, pp. 34–40; Mary Beth Norton et al., A People and a Nation, 6th ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001, pp. 28–29, 34.)

The larger British effort to isolate New England was implemented in 1777. That effort ultimately failed when the British surrendered a force of over five thousand to the Americans in the fall of 1777 

Minutemen met the British troops first at one village and skirmished with them and then at another.  These famous confrontations became the basis for Emerson’s 1836 description as the “shot heard round the world.” 

  Quiz: Using Context Clues and Word Parts Directions: Use one of the word parts below to fill in the blanks and create a word that fits the context.               jec/ject (to throw)                                                       mis/miso (to hate)             junc/junct (to join)                                                      mono (one)             gen/gene (production, formation, origin, cause)              NBC’s reality television show Fear Factor was one of the most mean-spirited and ____________________anthropic* programs ever created. Its stunts have included burying players under rats and bugs, daring them to eat sheep’s eyeballs, and having them bob for plums in a tank full of snakes. ___________ *anthrop: “man”

A group of artisans, shopkeepers, and small-time merchants opposed the Stamp Act and considered themselves British patriots defending their liberty, just as their forebears had done in the time of James II.  

These were a series of English mercantilist laws enacted between 1651 and 1696 to control trade with the colonies

Well-born British colonial women who led a non-importation movement against British goods

  Directions: Choose the appropriate letter to indicate the conclusion that can be drawn from each passage.   Most Americans think that sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are much safer than sports cars. And it’s true that a 5,000-pound SUV like the Chevrolet TrailBlazer is better at what the automotive industry calls “passive safety”; in other words, in a head-on collision with a car, a vehicle like a Ford Explorer is not going to be the one that’s crushed. However, many cars are much better than SUVs at what the automotive industry calls “active safety.” Midsize cars like the Toyota Camry and subcompact cars like the Volkswagen Jetta are more nimble, so their drivers have the ability to maneuver them to avoid crashes with the Explorers and the TrailBlazers. Being nimble and maneuverable, therefore, is often better than being big. Take, for example, emergency-stopping tests performed on both the TrailBlazer and the two-seater Porsche Boxster convertible. At 60 miles per hour, bringing the TrailBlazer to a sudden stop took about 150 feet and was not accomplished easily, for 5,000 pounds of rubber and steel does not stop that fast without a lot of screeching and bucking. The Boxster, however, can come to a complete stop in about 124 feet, which is a difference of about two car lengths. Obviously, two car lengths can, in many situations, mean the difference between life and death. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that the accident fatality rate for drivers of even some subcompact cars is half that for drivers of SUVs like the Ford Explorer, and drivers of the midsize imports, cars like the Camry and the Honda Accord, have the lowest accident fatality rates of all. (Source of information: Malcolm Gladwell, “Big and Bad,” The New Yorker, January 12, 2004, pp. 28–33.) From this passage, a reader might logically draw which conclusion?