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JREM 367 Exam 1 questions wellanswered to pass
Seditious Libel - correct answer ✔✔communication meant to incite people to change the government;
criticism of the government
Prior Restraint - correct answer ✔✔government censorship of information before it is published or
broadcast
Johannes Gutenberg - correct answer ✔✔inventor of the printing press
John Milton - correct answer ✔✔"truth trumps falsehoods," prominent during the Enlightenment
Carl Becker's definition of history - correct answer ✔✔"history is the memory of things said and done"
David Paul Nord's definition of history - correct answer ✔✔"a form of empirical inquiry that uses
theoretical constructs to attempt to make true statements about the past"
Publik Occurrences - correct answer ✔✔first newspaper in the colonies, established by Benjamin Harris
in 1690
The Boston News-Letter - correct answer ✔✔established by John Campbell in 1704, first continuously
produced newspaper in the colonies
New England Courant - correct answer ✔✔established by James Franklin in 1721, critiques through
satire,
Cotton Mather - correct answer ✔✔minister, part of Puritan New England important families, a scholar,
one of first americans to promote vaccination of smallpox when it was believed to be dangerous
, Ann Smith Franklin - correct answer ✔✔wife of James Franklin, ran the New England Courant when her
husband passed away in 1735
Silence Dogood Letters - correct answer ✔✔pen name for Benjamin Franklin when working for his older
brother at the Courant, modeled after the "Spectator"
Benjamin Franklin - correct answer ✔✔ran by traditional press style, used satire to critique government
but also wrote about sex and gossip to increase sales, Pennsylvania Gazette, extended opportunities to
women and helps women start newspapers in the South
Samuel Keimer - correct answer ✔✔a friend of William Bradford, the printer in Philadelphia for whom
Franklin works, their relationship deteriorates over time, and eventually, they have a falling out, Keimer
however, tries to make amends when he realizes that Ben can supply him with important printing tools.
Busy-Body Papers - correct answer ✔✔satirical essays written by Benjamin Franklin and friend, used in
an attempt to out-wit Keimer
John Peter Zenger - correct answer ✔✔a journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New
York in the 1700s in his paper the New York Journal he was jailed; he sued, and this court case was the
basis for our freedom of speech and press, "the greater the truth the greater the libel"
James Alexander - correct answer ✔✔attorney who views Zenger published in The New York Weekly
Journal
Sir William Cosby - correct answer ✔✔governor of NY, subject of James Alexander's work in NY Journal
Andrew Hamilton - correct answer ✔✔Defense attorney in the Zenger case who made the first step
toward freedom of the press
Zenger trial (1734-1735) - correct answer ✔✔New York libel case against John Peter Zenger. Established
the principle that truthful statements about public officials could not be prosecuted as libel.
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