American Pageant Fourteenth Edition Chapter 5 vocab
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| 587204828 | Arminianism | Belief that salvation is offered to all humans but is conditional on acceptance of God's grace. Different from Calvinism, which emphasizes predestination and unconditional election. | 1 | |
| 587204829 | Great Awakening (1730s and 1740s) | Religious revival that swept the colonies. Participating ministers, most notably Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield, placed an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality. A Second Great Awakening arose in the nineteenth century. | 2 | |
| 587204830 | Molasses Act (1737) | Tax on imported Molasses passed by Parliament in an effort to squelch the North American trade with the French West Indies. It proved largely ineffective due to widespread smuggling. | 3 | |
| 587204831 | new lights | Ministers who took part in the revivalist, emotive religious tradition pioneered by George Whitefield during the Great Awakening. | 4 | |
| 587204832 | old lights | Orthodox clergymen who rejected the emotionalism of the Great Awakening in favor of a more rational spirituality. | 5 | |
| 587204833 | Paxton Boys (1764) | Armed march on Philadelphia by Scotts-Irish frontiersmen in protest against the Quaker establishment's lenient policies toward Native Americans. | 6 |
