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America
’
s Founding Principles 201 Study Guide (Part 1) Page 1
 
Central Illinois 9/12 Project 
 
Beck University
— 
Study Guide 1
Learning Real American History
A Central Illinois 9/12 Project Group Study
America’s Founding Principles
201
– 
Part 1
Divine Providence
vs.
 
Manifest Destiny
– 
 An Overview
Presented by: Dr. Peter A. Lillback
(See Dr. Lillback’s biography at glennbeck.com)
 
 
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’
s Founding Principles 201 Study Guide (Part 1) Page 2
 
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1.
 
Founding Father Benjamin Franklin felt that knowledge needed to be
shared broadly and openly
. Heopened the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731. The Library was formed as a collection of booksthat could be borrowed and shared. The Library and many of Franklin
’
s experiments were housed in abuilding known as C
_____________________’s Hall.
 
Note to Leader:
Carpenter’s Hall 
 internet site in an excellent resource.
2.
 
In 1774 Carpenter
’
s Hall was the meeting place for America
’s first
Continental C___________________. It was there that the Founders, who represented a number of religious traditions, first learned to pr_______________ together. The Founders believed in thefoundational idea of 
Providence
.3.
 
According to author and historian Dr. Peter Lillback,
Providence
 
means that God knows what ishappening in the world. He penetrates into human h____________________. God fulfills His purposethrough human actions. God is the primary cause, and humans are the secondary agents of His plans.
Note to Leader :Dr Peter Lillback  authored George
Washington’s Sacred 
Fire.
4.
 
The most important textbook for the Founding Fathers was The B_______________________.5.
 
One-third of all of the Founders quotations came directly from The B_______________. The Founderswere Biblically literate!
 
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s Founding Principles 201 Study Guide (Part 1) Page 3
 
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6.
 
One of the Founder
’s
,a Biblical scholar and a Presbyterian clergyman who signed the Declaration of Independence, was J___________________ W_____________________________. This Founder wasalso the President of Princeton University.
 
7.
 
There are ___________specific instances in the Declaration of Independence where reference is made toGod.
Note to Leader: Using copies of the Declaration of Independence, Leader should read aloud theDeclaration of Independence with group members following along. During the reading, pause and havesmall group members locate and underline/highlight the following four instances.
 a)
 
The Founders acknowledged that all rights came from God. . . .
are endowed by their C_________________________ with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life,Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
(Reference to the
Founding Fathers
)
b)
 
Laws of nature and of n _______________ G_______________
. . . .(Reference to the
Legislative Branch
)c)
 
. . . appealing to the S_________________ J________________ of the world for the rectitudeof our intentions. . . .
(Reference to the
Judicial Branch
)d)
 
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of P___________________, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
(Reference to the
Executive Branch
)
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