Vocab words highlighted for test from The American Pageant: Chapter 5
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| 890497580 | Germans | Ethnic group who accounted for 6% of the population, or about 150,000 people by 1775. Most of them were Lutheran and came to be called the Pennsylvania Dutch | |
| 890497581 | Scots- Irish | Ethnic group who accounted for 7% of the population, or about 175,000 people by 1775. They were often described as pugnacious, lawless, and individualistic. They had initially been transplanted to Northern Ireland but were resented by the Irish Catholics and so they came to America; namely Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas; as squatters, who argued with both indians and white landowners. They led the armed march of the Paxton Boys | |
| 890497582 | Triangular Trade | Trade route in which New England would trade rum to Africa for slaves, which would be traded to the West Indies for molasses, which would be traded to New England for the use in making more rum | |
| 890497583 | Molasses Act | Act passed by Parliament in 1733, which, if successful, would have struck a crippling blow to American international trade by hindering its trade with the French West Indies | |
| 890497584 | Established Churches | Tax supported churches | |
| 890497585 | Church of England (Anglican) | Official church in Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, and a part of New York that served as a prop to kingly authority in America | |
| 890497586 | Congregational Church | Church that grew from the Puritan church and was established in all of New England, except Rhode Island | |
| 890497587 | Arminianism | Belief system by which free will, not divine decree, determined a person's eternal fate, and that all humans, not just the "elect", could be saved if they freely accepted God's grace | |
| 890497588 | Jonathan Edwards | Preacher with fiery preaching methods, emotionally moving many listeners to tears while talking of the eternal damnation that nonbelievers would face after death. He started preaching in 1734 and his methods were highly debatable. His famous metaphor was that "the road to hell is paved with the skulls of unbaptized children" | |
| 890497589 | George Whitefield | Preacher who was better than Edwards but started 4 years later. He made Edwards weep and Ben Franklin empty his pockets into the collection plate. He was highly imitated by people who would copy his emotional shaking sermons and his heaping of blame on sinners. | |
| 890497590 | John Trumbull | Painter in Connecticut who was discouraged, as a youth, by his father | |
| 890497591 | Charles Willson Peale | Painter best known for his portrait of George Washington. He also ran a museum, stuffed birds, and practiced dentistry | |
| 890497592 | Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley | Painters who had to go to England to complete their ambitious careers | |
| 890497593 | Georgian Style of Architecture | Classical, red bricked style of architecture, first introduced about 1720 | |
| 890497594 | Phillis Wheatley | A slave girl who wasn't formally educated, but went to Britain and published a book of verse and subsequently wrote other published poems that revealed the influence of Alexander Pope | |
| 890497595 | Ben Franklin | Wrote Poor Richards Almanac, a very influential book containing many common sayings and phrases, and was more widely read in America and Europe behind the Bible | |
| 890497596 | John Peter Zenger | A New York newspaper printer that was taken to court and charged with libel. The importance was the early score of the freedom of press. |
