Key terms and concepts from Chapter 5
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| 907348392 | Paxton Boys | The Scots-Irish had no love for any government after the treatment they received in Ireland and England, and they led a march on Philadelphia in 1764, protesting lenient policy towards Indians. | |
| 907348393 | Regulator Movemont | Sponsored by the same people as the Paxton Boys March, this Movement began in North Carolina and was a small but nasty insurrection against the domination of the eastern part of the colony. | |
| 907348394 | triangular trade | Basically the Columbian Exchange, but with a slightly different distribution of goods. The colonies gave the Caribbean sugar islands with food and forest products, hauled Spanish gold, wine, and oranges to London, and in return received industrial goods which were sold in America. | |
| 907348395 | the Molasses Act | Parliament passed the Molasses Act in order to cripple America's international trade with the French West Indies, but the colonist just smuggled their way around the law. | |
| 907348396 | Arminianism | Named after the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius, this idea stated that individual free will, not divine decree, determined a person's eternal fate and that all humans could be saved if they accepted God's grace. Threatening to the concept of predestination. | |
| 907348397 | Great Awakening | Began in the 1730s and swept through the colonies. Two main proponents were Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. | |
| 907348398 | Old lights vs. New lights | Old lights, or the orthodox clergymen were highly suspicious of the emotionalism of the revivalists. New lights, however, defended the Awakening as the great revitalizer of American religion. Created many schisms in churches, depending on peoples' point of view. | |
| 907348399 | Poor Richard's Almanack | The periodical that Ben Franklin edited from 1732-1758. Emphasized values such as thrift, industry, morality, and common sense. | |
| 907348400 | Zenger trial | Involved Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer who was charged with seditious libel for assaulting a corrupt royal governor in his paper. In the end, he was declared not guilty against the directions of the judges, setting a precedent for future cases. | |
| 907348401 | royal colonies | Colonies in which the crown chooses the upper house or local parliament for the area | |
| 907348402 | proprietary colonies | Colonies in which the proprietors choose the upper house or local parliament for the area |
