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| 34821328 | Jonathan Edwards | American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated the Great Awakening, a period of renewed interest in religion in America | |
| 34821329 | Benjamin Franklin | One of the few Americans who was highly respected in Europe, primarily due to his discoveries in the field of electricity. He was also the author of Poor Richard's Almanac. | |
| 34822183 | Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur | A French settler who posed the classic question on the racial identity of an "American" | |
| 34822184 | George Whitefield | Masterful orator, rekindled the religiousness of the colonies during the Great Awakening. He was a leader of the "new lights" | |
| 34822185 | John Peter Zenger | A newspaper printer from New York, was arrested and tried for seditious libel for attacking the royal governor. He was acquitted with the help of his lawyer, Alexander Hamilton. This was a huge step for the freedom of the press. | |
| 34822186 | Phillis Wheatley | A slave girl from Boston, became a distinguished poet and was brought to England, where she published a book of her verses | |
| 34822187 | John Copley | An American painter who fled to England to avoid the American Revolution, as he was regarded as a Loyalist. | |
| 34822188 | Benjamin West | An American painter, was forced to go overseas to England to complete his training and find subjects to gain a living. | |
| 34822189 | John Trumbull | An accomplished American painter, was discouraged from painting in Connecticut because of lack of artistic culture, and moved to London | |
| 34822190 | Charles Peale | An American painter famous for his portraits of George Washington who dabbled in a variety of other areas, such as taxonomy and dentistry. | |
| 34822191 | Lord Cornbury | One of the worst colonial governors, was a cousin of Queen Anne, who made him governor of New York and New Jersey. | |
| 34822192 | Popery | The fear that the pope would send representatives and bring Catholicism back to the colonies, leading to the eradication of "Catholic" holidays, such as Christmas. | |
| 34822193 | Libel | False publication intended to ruin someone's reputation | |
| 34822194 | Slander | A verbal attack on someone's reputation | |
| 34822195 | Paxton Boys | A group of Scots-Irish from the outskirts of Philadelphia, protested the Quakers' leniency toward the Indians. Their actions sparked the Regulator Movement in North Carolina | |
| 34822196 | Great Awakening | A period of huge religious revival throughout the colonies, sparked by a few strong religious speakers, called the "new lights." | |
| 34822197 | Rack-renting | The practice of landlords greatly increasing the rent of their tenants, forcing already impoverished tenants to pay more | |
| 34822198 | Regulator Movement | A movement in North Carolina where dissenters, mostly Scots-Irish, believed that tax money was being dealt unfairly | |
| 34822199 | Old Lights | Conservative clergymen who were against the emotional approach of the Great Awakening | |
| 34822200 | New Lights | Clergymen who defended the Great Awakening for reinvigorating American religion | |
| 34822201 | Seditious Libel | The crime of openly criticizing a public official | |
| 34822202 | Triangular Trade | A trade between America, the West Indies, and Africa, which some colonists took advantage of after the fall of the Royal African Company, and yielded great profits to its merchants. | |
| 34822203 | Molasses Act | An act intended to end American trade with the French West Indies passed by Britain, which was largely overridden by smuggling and bribery. | |
| 34822204 | Scots-Irish | A group of people from the Scottish lowlands, who migrated restlessly, moving to Ireland, and ending up in North America. They were very separate from other cultures, and were largely very poor | |
| 34822205 | Naval Stores | Materials used to build and maintain ships, such as tar, pitch, rosin, and turpentine | |
| 34822206 | Pennsylvania Dutch | Germans who migrated from Europe to Pennsylvania fleeing religious persecution, as they were primarily Lutheran. "Dutch" was a corruption of "Deutsch" | |
| 34822207 | French Huguenots | French protestants who came to the New World to escape religious prosecution in France | |
| 34822208 | Scots Highlanders | Scots from the highlands of Scotland | |
| 34822209 | Jayle Birds | British convicts who were shipped to America involuntarily. They included robbers, rapists, and murderers, but some were simply highly respectable citizens who had simply had been victimized by the strict English penal code | |
| 34822210 | Congregational Church | A church grown out of the Puritan church, was established in all New England colonies but Rhode Island. It was based on the belief that individual churches should govern themselves | |
| 34822211 | Established Churches | Churches funded by taxes, such as the Anglican and Congregational churches | |
| 34822212 | Almshouses | Houses designated to aid the widows and orphans of Philadelphia and New York | |
| 34822213 | Gentry | The most powerful members of a society | |
| 34822214 | Veto | To reject | |
| 34822215 | Secular | Not church-affiliated | |
| 34822216 | Speculation | A hypothesis | |
| 34822217 | Provincial | Limited in outlook to ones own small corner of the world | |
| 34822218 | Revival Meeting | A meeting meant to revive interest in a religion | |
| 34822219 | Poor Richard's Almanac | A bestselling book written by Benjamin Franklin that was a compilation of many different sayings | |
| 34822220 | Pro Bono Publico | One of the pseudonyms used by newspaper columnists on the eve of the Revolution, meaning "For the Public Good" | |
| 34822221 | Melting Pot | A society with a great diversity of cultures and races | |
| 34822222 | Stratification | The arrangement of classes in social structure | |
| 34822223 | Penal Code | A code governing crimes and punishment | |
| 34822224 | Schisms | Rifts in belief between two opposing parties | |
| 34822225 | Presbyterian Church | A branch of Protestantism which was influenced greatly by Calvinism | |
| 34822226 | Birching | Disciplining a child by being hit with a branch of a birch tree | |
| 34822227 | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | One of Jonathan Edwards' most famous sermons, which warned listeners of Hell | |
| 34822228 | Baptists Church | A church founded by Roger Williams, which was largely based on Calvinism | |
| 34822229 | Fervid | Intensely emotional | |
| 34822230 | Orthodox | Classic or accepted | |
| 34822231 | Pugnacious | Fond of fighting |
