Church History

Chapter 13The Church in North America: A Style of Its Own

Part One: MissionTerritory(pages 257-265)

A. Review Questions

  1. Where did the Spanish missionaries work? Where did the French missionaries work?
  2. Describe how theSpanish and French missionaries viewed, and acted toward, the Native Americans?
  3. Describe how Native Americans viewed, and acted towards, the missionaries.
  4. How did the treatment of Native Americans by Spanish traders frustrate the work of Christian missionaries in the Southwest?
  5. What were the successes of the California missions? What were the failures?
  6. What Christian values were illustrated in the brief life of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha?
  7. Describe the geographical domain (area) of France and Christianity by the end of the 1600s.
  8. Describe the no-win situation often felt by Indian converts?
  9. How did European disputes cause conflict between the French and English living in the New World?
  10. Describe the history of Catholics in the Maryland colony.
  11. Why was the American Revolution good news for Catholics?

B. Vocabulary: none

C. Key Concepts, Events, Dates, People and Places

a)John de Brebeuf

b)Saint Augustine

c)Santa Fe

d)Junipero Serra

e)Issac Jogues

f)Marie Guyart

g)Francis Xavier de Montmorency Laval

h)Treaty of Paris

i)Quebec Act

j)Charles Carroll

k)Kosciuszko and Pulaski

l)Lafayette

Part Two: A Distinctly American Church(pages 266-270)

A. Review Questions

  1. Who was John Carroll and why was his election as the first Catholic bishop in the United States significant?
  2. What difficulties did Bishop Carroll face in establishing order in the U.S. Catholic Church?
  3. Explain the numerous accomplishments of Bishop Carroll.
  4. What contributions did Elizabeth Ann Seton make to U.S. Catholicism?
  5. Describe the effects of the expansion of U.S. territories on the lives and hardships of the Catholic clergy.
  6. Explain Sister Blandina’s plan/scheme to rebuild the schoolhouse without money?
  7. List three significant Catholics, and their variety of ministries, involved in settling the frontier.
  8. What was the response of the church to the western expansion of the U.S.?

B. Vocabulary:none

C. Key Concepts, Events, Dates, People and Places

m)Sisters of Charity

n)Father Pierre Jean De Smet

Part Three:An Immigrant Church(pages 271-276)

A. Review Questions

  1. When were the three waves of European immigration and what groups composed them?
  2. What is nativism? Why was there bigotry against Catholics?
  3. What are several ways Catholics demonstrated concern for workers and the poor?
  4. Why did some ethnic groups want their own churches?
  5. Why did German parishes ask Rome to form German dioceses in the U.S.? What was the response?
  6. What changes were requested in public schools in Philadelphia and New York? What was the response?
  7. According to Bishop Peter Vay’s account what are the challenges facing Hungarian immigrants? What are their only safeguards?
  8. Why were Catholics so committed to Catholic schools?
  9. Describe the way Canada was divided among Catholics and Protestants.
  10. How does the funding of Canadian schools differ from the United States?
  11. In what ways did blacks face discrimination in the U.S. Catholic church? By what reasoning did many Catholics tolerate slavery?

B. Vocabulary:none

C. Key Concepts, Events, Dates, People and Places

o)nativists

p)Know-Nothing Party

q)Knights of Labor

r)Saint Vincent de Paul Society

s)the German Triangle

t)the Council of Baltimore

u)the Baltimore Catechism

v)Augustus Tolton

Part Four: Democratic Ideals and the Church(277-279)

A. Review Questions

  1. Describe the positions of the Americanizers and their more conservative opponents.
  2. Why were European church leaders suspicious of republican revolutions?
  3. Why were many Americans bitter in the presidential election of 1928?
  4. What event symbolized that American Catholics had arrived as part of the main stream?

35-36. (double points) What are four implications for the Catholic Church in North America during this period of history?

B. Vocabulary:

w)Modernism

C. Key Concepts, Events, Dates, People and Places

x)Archbishop John Ireland