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| 210676081 | Population Characteristics of Colonies | Average age of colonists 16 Demographics: Mortality Rates: Nationalities: | 0 | |
| 210676082 | Education: | William and Mary: established in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1693. Like Harvard, it was conceived as an academy to train clergymen. Yale: Princeton: | 1 | |
| 210676083 | The Great Awakening | religious revival in the 1730-40s, helped by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield; inspired controversy over emotionalism/revivalism versus traditionalist Protestantism, nevertheless united the Americans as a people | 2 | |
| 210676084 | George Whitefield | succeeded John Wesley as leader of Calvinist Methodists in Oxford, England, major force in revivalism in England and America, journey to colonies sparked Great Awakening, (key figure of "New Light"); known for his talented voice inflection and ability to bring many a person to their knees. | 3 | |
| 210676085 | Jon Edwards | Preacher in New England. Thought that you had to be touched by God to be admitted to heaven. Most conservative of preachers. famous sermon was "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"? | 4 | |
| 210676086 | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | title of Jonathan Edward's most famous sermontalks about people who dont believe in god. uses repition, imagery and metaphors. and that these people will go to hell. Also talks about gods mercy and the relationship between god and humanity. | 5 | |
| 210676087 | Old and New Lights | In the early 1700's, old lights were simply orthodox members of the clergy who believed that the new ways of revivals and emotional preaching were unnecessary. New lights were the more modern- thinking members of the clergy who strongly believed in the Great Awakening. These conflicting opinions changed certain denominations, helped popularize missionary work and assisted in the founding educational centers now known as Ivy League schools. | 6 | |
| 210676088 | Printing Presses Ben 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. | 7 | |
| 210676089 | Peter Zenger | (October 26, 1697 - July 28, 1746) was a German-born American printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City. His indictment, trial and acquittal on sedition and libel charges against the Governor William Cosby of the New York Colony in 1735[1] were important contributing factors to the development of freedom of the press in America. The Zenger decision helped clarify the beliefs of early Colonial life and lay the groundwork for the responsibilities of both media and government in a functioning democracy. | 8 | |
| 210676090 | Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur | A French settler who posed the classic question on the racial identity of an "American" | 9 | |
| 210676091 | Phillis Wheatley | A slave girl from Boston, became a distinguished poet and was brought to England, where she published a book of her verses | 10 | |
| 210676092 | 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 | 11 | |
| 210676093 | Rack-renting | The practice of landlords greatly increasing the rent of their tenants, forcing already impoverished tenants to pay more | 12 | |
| 210676094 | Regulator Movement | A movement in North Carolina where dissenters, mostly Scots-Irish, believed that tax money was being dealt unfairly | 13 | |
| 210676095 | Seditious Libel | The crime of openly criticizing a public official | 14 | |
| 210676096 | 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. | 15 | |
| 210676097 | 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. | 16 | |
| 210676098 | 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 | 17 | |
| 210676099 | Naval Stores | Materials used to build and maintain ships, such as tar, pitch, rosin, and turpentine | 18 | |
| 210676100 | Pennsylvania Dutch | Germans who migrated from Europe to Pennsylvania fleeing religious persecution, as they were primarily Lutheran. "Dutch" was a corruption of "Deutsch" | 19 | |
| 210676101 | French Huguenots | French protestants who came to the New World to escape religious prosecution in France | 20 | |
| 210676102 | Scots Highlanders | Scots from the highlands of Scotland | 21 | |
| 210676103 | 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 | 22 | |
| 210676104 | 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 | 23 | |
| 210676105 | Established Churches | Churches funded by taxes, such as the Anglican and Congregational churches | 24 | |
| 210676106 | Almshouses | Houses designated to aid the widows and orphans of Philadelphia and New York | 25 | |
| 210676107 | Gentry | The most powerful members of a society | 26 | |
| 210676108 | Veto | To reject | 27 | |
| 210676109 | Secular | Not church-affiliated | 28 | |
| 210676110 | Provincial | Limited in outlook to ones own small corner of the world | 29 | |
| 210676111 | Revival Meeting | A meeting meant to revive interest in a religion | 30 | |
| 210676112 | Poor Richard's Almanac | A bestselling book written by Benjamin Franklin that was a compilation of many different sayings | 31 | |
| 210676113 | Pro Bono Publico | One of the pseudonyms used by newspaper columnists on the eve of the Revolution, meaning "For the Public Good" | 32 | |
| 210676114 | Melting Pot | A society with a great diversity of cultures and races | 33 | |
| 210676115 | Stratification | The arrangement of classes in social structure | 34 | |
| 210676116 | Penal Code | A code governing crimes and punishment | 35 | |
| 210676117 | Schisms | Rifts in belief between two opposing parties | 36 | |
| 210676118 | Presbyterian Church | A branch of Protestantism which was influenced greatly by Calvinism | 37 | |
| 210676119 | Baptists Church | A church founded by Roger Williams, which was largely based on Calvinism | 38 | |
| 210676120 | Orthodox | Classic or accepted | 39 |
