Question

"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal

falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken... we shall be made a story and a by-word throughout the world. We
shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God... We shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy
servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us til we be consumed out of the good land whither we are
a-going."
John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity," 1630

This feeling expressed in this passage from colonial America can also be BEST expressed by

A) the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.
B) the United States' belief in "Manifest Destiny."
C) the movement to abolish the institution of slavery.
D) the accumulation of American wealth during the "Gilded Age."

Answer 1

The correct answer is B) the United States' belief in "Manifest Destiny.

This feeling expressed in this passage from colonial America can also be BEST expressed by the United States' belief in "Manifest Destiny."

John Winthrop delivered the sermon "A Model of Christian Charity," in1630 when he was traveling with a group of Europeans in the Arbella ship, before arriving at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The ideas expressed in that sermon are similar to the "Manifested Destiny," a concept widely popular in 1845 that expressed that people in the United States were destined to explore and expand in all the US territory.

Answer 2

B) the United States' belief in ¨Manifest Destiny¨