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| 443869847 | Jonathan Edwards | American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758) | 1 | |
| 443869848 | Benjamin Franklin | American intellectual, inventor, and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution. | 2 | |
| 443869849 | Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur | Frenchman who in 1770 wrote about how the race "American" is unlike any he has seen before, it being a mixture of numerous nationalities | 3 | |
| 443869850 | George Whitefield | One of the preachers of the great awakening (key figure of "New Light"); known for his talented voice inflection and ability to bring many a person to their knees. | 4 | |
| 443869851 | John Peter Zenger | Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued, and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found not guilty. | 5 | |
| 443869852 | Phillis Wheatley | American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784) | 6 | |
| 443869853 | 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) | 7 | |
| 443869854 | John Trumbull | He was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War famous for his historical paintings including his Declaration of Independence. | 8 | |
| 443869855 | Charles Wilson Peale | the famous American painter from Maryland who, in the early 1800s, painted over 60 portraits of George Washington. | 9 | |
| 443869856 | Benjamin West | an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence. | 10 | |
| 443869857 | Jacobus Arminius | A Dutch theologian who was the head of the Armenians. His main doctrine taught that an individual's free will, not predestination, determined a person's holiness or damnation. | 11 | |
| 443869858 | Andrew Hamilton | lawyer who travelled from Philadelphia to take Zenger's case for the cause of liberty. He called upon the jury's members to judge the truth of the material for themselves. He believed freedom of speech was essential in colonies to make sure the governors would not abuse their power. | 12 | |
| 443869859 | Paxton Boys | 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. | 13 | |
| 443869860 | Great Awakening | Puritanism had declined by the 1730s, and people were upset about the decline in religious piety. The Great Awakening was a sudden outbreak of religious fervor that swept through the colonies. One of the first events to unify the colonies. | 14 | |
| 443869861 | Anglicans | Followers of the Church of England | 15 | |
| 443869862 | rack-renting | A form of rent where the renter pays the highest possible price, which drove Scots-Irish to America. | 16 | |
| 443869863 | Regulator movement | Eventually violent uprising of backcountry settlers in North Carolina against unfair taxation and the control of colonial affairs by the seaboard elite | 17 | |
| 443869864 | old and new lights | the traditional and new members of the church during the Great Awakening | 18 | |
| 443869865 | triangular trade | A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Aferica sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa | 19 | |
| 443869866 | Molasses Act | A British law passed in 1773 to change a trade pattern in the American colonies by taxing molasses imported into colonies not ruled by Britain. Americans responded to this attempt to damage their international trade by bribing and smuggling. Their protest of this and other laws led to revolution. | 20 | |
| 443869867 | Scots-Irish | Ethnic group that had already relocated once before immigrating to America and settling largely on the Western frontier of the middle and southern colonies | 21 | |
| 443869868 | naval stores | Materials used to build and maintain ships, such as tar, pitch, rosin, and turpentine | 22 | |
| 443869869 | praying towns | Towns set up by puritan missionaries for Indian converts to spread puritan Christianity, the first of which, Natick, was founded in 1651. As the Indian population in the east waned, assimilation as "Praying Indians" became the only option besides retreating farther west. | 23 | |
| 443869870 | almshouses | Set up in New York and Philadelphia in the 1730s as homes for widows and orphans | 24 | |
| 443869871 | jayle birds | English criminals (including robbers, rapists, and murderers) who were sent to America for voluntary indentured servitude | 25 | |
| 443869873 | taverns | sprang up along main routes of travel and in cities. Served as a place for amusement but also for "gossiping," became a cradle of democracy | 26 | |
| 443869874 | Congregational Church | an established church that grew out of Puritanism, established in all colonies except Rhode Island. apart of the neo-trinity consisting of Presbyterianism, Congregational, and rebellion. | 27 | |
| 443869875 | Presbyterian | a form of Protestantism closely associated to Congregationalism, brought to American by the Scottish | 28 | |
| 443869876 | Armenians | followers of Jacobus Arminius, preached the idea that individual free will, not divine decree determined a person's eternal fate. | 29 | |
| 443869877 | heresies | a person who holds a belief contrary to orthodox Calvinism. Arminians were considered them. | 30 | |
| 443869878 | Old Lights | the term used for orthodox clergymen who were deeply skeptical of the antics of the revivalists, usually were older members of the clergy. | 31 | |
| 443869879 | New Lights | the term used for ministers who defended the Awakening for revitalizing American religion. George Whitefield, and Jonathan Edwards. | 32 |
