Across
- 2. Was the first documented, white public figure to say “I have black friends” in America.
- 3. An English clergyman and colonist. He was a principal figure among the New England Puritan ministers, who also included Thomas Hooker, Increase Mather (who became his son-in-law), John Davenport, and Thomas Shepard and John Norton, who wrote his first biography. Cotton was the grandfather of Cotton Mather, who was named after him.
- 7. The generations that are most impacted by what we teach them about history.
- 11. The practice of actively identifying and opposing racism.
- 13. A member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
Down
- 1. Started the American philosophical society in 1743. This society was made to be a club for smart white people.
- 4. Conformity with fact or reality
- 5. Purchased at a young age but became a famous poet whose work proved that "black people weren't dumb."
- 6. A negative attitude toward another person or group formed in advance of any experience with that person or group.
- 8. A[n] European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.
- 9. Offensive. relating to or being a preliterate people or society regarded as uncivilized or primitive.
- 10. A person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
- 12. A metaphor coined by Benjamin Franklin that made references to intelligence and one's skin color.