Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
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| 1447202381 | Paxton Boys | They were a group of Scots-Irish men living in the Appalachian hills that wanted protection from Indian attacks. They made an armed march on Philadelphia in 1764. They protested the lenient way that the Quakers treated the Indians. Their ideas started the Regulator Movement in North Carolina. | 0 | |
| 1447202382 | Regulator movement | It was a movement during the 1760's by western North Carolinians, mainly Scots-Irish, that resented the way that the Eastern part of the state dominated political affairs. They believed that the tax money was being unevenly distributed. Many of its members joined the American Revolutionists. | 1 | |
| 1447202383 | triangular trade | A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa | 2 | |
| 1447202384 | Molasses Act | (1733) A British law that imposed a tax on sugar, molasses, and rum imported from non-British colonies into North American colonies. It was intended to maintain the monopoly of the American sugar market by the West Indies sugarcane growers. It was the least successful of the Navigation Acts, since it was avoided by smuggling. | 3 | |
| 1447202385 | Arminianism | 16th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignity | 4 | |
| 1447202386 | Great Awakening | ..., Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established. | 5 | |
| 1447202387 | old lights | Conservative clergymen who were against the emotional approach of the Great Awakening | 6 | |
| 1447202388 | new lights | Clergymen who defended the Great Awakening for reinvigorating American religion | 7 | |
| 1447202389 | Poor Richard's Almanack | A bestselling book written by Benjamin Franklin that was a compilation of many different sayings | 8 | |
| 1447202390 | Zenger trial | 1735 trial that promoted the idea of freedom of the press. | 9 | |
| 1447202391 | royal colonies | Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws. | 10 | |
| 1447202392 | propietary colonies | colonies owned by persons who had been given a royal charter to own land | 11 | |
| 1447202393 | Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur | a Frenchman who settled in New York territory in 1759; he wrote a book called Letters of an American Farmer that established a new standard for writing about America: | 12 | |
| 1447202394 | Jacobus Arminius | Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609) | 13 | |
| 1447202395 | Jonathan Edwards | American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758) | 14 | |
| 1447202396 | George Whitefield | (1739) Stressed that God was all powerful and would save only those who openly professed faith in Christ Jesus. Taught that with sincere faith, ordinary people could understand scripture without ministers | 15 | |
| 1447202397 | John Trumbull | American artist and painter who painted four panels in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington: The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and The Resignation of General Washington. | 16 | |
| 1447202398 | John Singleton Copley | American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815) | 17 | |
| 1447202399 | Phillis Wheatley | American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784) | 18 | |
| 1447202400 | John Peter Zenger | A New York editor whose trial for seditious libel backfired on the government; the jury found that truth was a defense for libel. | 19 |
