Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775 Flashcards
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468447213 | The primary reason for the spectacular growth of America's population in the eighteenth century was | the natural fertility of the population | |
468447214 | German settlement in the colonies was especially heavy in | Pennsylvania | |
468447215 | The scots-irish eventually became concentrated especially in | the frontier areas | |
468447216 | Compared with the seventeeth century, American colonial society in the eighteeth century showed | greater gaps in wealth and status between rich and poor | |
468447217 | the most honored professsion in the colonial America was the | clergymen | |
468447218 | The primary source of livelihood for most colonial Americans was | agriculture | |
468447219 | Indians and African Americans shared in the common American experience of | creating new cultures and societies out of the mingling of diverse ethinc groups | |
468447220 | An unfortunate group of involuntary immigrants who ranked even below indentured servants on the American social scare were | convicts and paupers | |
468447221 | The "triangular trade" involved the sale of rum, molasses and slaves among the ports of | New England, Africa, and the West Indies | |
468447222 | The passage of British restrictions on trade and encouraged colonial merchants to | find ways to smuggle and otherise evade the law by trading with other countries | |
468447223 | Besides offering rest and refreshment, colonial taverns served an important fuction as centers of | news and political opinion | |
468447224 | The Angelican church suffered in colonial America because of | its poorly qualified clergy and close ties with British authorities | |
468447225 | The two denominations that enjoyed the status of "established" churches in vavrious colonies were the | Anglicans and Congregationalists | |
468447226 | Among the many impostant results of the Great Awakening ws that it | broke down sectional boundaries and created a greater sense of common American identity | |
468447227 | A primary weapon used by colonial legislatures in their conflicts with royal governors was | using their power of the purse to withhold the governor's salary | |
468447228 | Deutsch | Corruption of a German word used as a term for German immigrants in Pennsylvania | |
468447229 | 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 | |
468447230 | Regulator | Rebellious movement of frontiersmen in the southern colonies that included future President Andrew Jackson | |
468447231 | Jayle Birds | popular term for convicted criminals dumped on colonies by British authorities | |
468447232 | Praying Towns | Term for New England settlements where Indians from various tribes were gathered to be Christianized | |
468447233 | Lawyer | A once-despised profession | |
468447234 | Triangular Trade | small but profitable trade route that linked New England, Africa and the West Indies | |
468447235 | taverns | popular colonial centers of recreation, gossip and political debate | |
468447236 | established | term for tax-supported condition of Congretional and Anglican churches, but not of Baptists, Quakers, and Roman Catholics. | |
468447237 | Great Awakening | spectacular, emtional religious revival of the 1730's amd the 1740's | |
468447238 | New Light | ministers who supported the Great Awakening against the "old light" clergy who rejected it | |
468447239 | Colleges | Institutions that were founded in greater numbers as a result of the Great Awkwaening, although a few had been founded earlier | |
468447240 | The Zenger Case | The case that establishedthe precedent that true statements about the public officaials could not be prossecuted as libel | |
468447241 | Council | the upper house of a colonial legislature appointed by the crown or the proprietor | |
468447242 | Richards Almanack | Benjamin Franklin's highly popular collection of information, parables and advice. | |
468447243 | George Whitefield | Itinerant British evangelist who spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies | |
468447244 | John Peter Zenger | Colonial printer whose case helped begin freedom of the press | |
468447245 | John singleton Copley | colonial painter who studied and worked in Britian | |
468447246 | Philadelphia | Leading city of the colonies; home of Benjamin Franklin | |
468447247 | African Americans | Largest non-English group in the colonies | |
468447248 | Quakers | Dominant religious group in colonial Pennsylvania, critized by other for their attitude toward the Indians | |
468447249 | Phillis Wheatley | Former slave who became a poet at an early age | |
468447250 | Paxton Boys and Regulators | Scots-Irish frontiersmen who prostested against colonial elites of Pennsylvaniaand North Carolina | |
468447251 | Molasses Act | Attempt by British authorities to squelch colonial trade with French West Indies | |
468447252 | Jonathan Edwards | Brilliant New England theologian who instigated the Great Awakening | |
468447253 | Scots-Irish | Group that settled the frontier, made whiskey, and hated the British and other governmental authorities | |
468447254 | Baptists | Nonestablished religious group that benefited from the Great Awakening | |
468447255 | Benjamin Franklin | Author, scienists, printer, "the first civilized American" | |
468447256 | Patrick Henry | Eloquent lawyer-rator who argued in defense of colonial rights | |
468447257 | Anglican Church | Established religion in southern colonies and New York; weakened by lackadaisical clergy and too-close ties with British crown. | |
468447258 | The appointment of unpopular or incompetent royal governors to colonies | promited colonial assemblies to withhold royal governors' salaries | |
468447259 | dry over-intellectualism and loss of religious commitment | created the conditions for the Great awakening to erupt in the early eighteenth century | |
468447260 | The heavy immigration of Germans, Scots-Irish, Africans, and others into the colonies | resulted in the development of a colonial "melting pot" only one-half English by 1775 | |
468447261 | American merchants search for non-british markets | Was met by British attempts to restrict colonial trade, eg, the Molasses Act | |
468447262 | The large profits made by merchants as military suppliers for imperial wars | Increased the wealth of the eighteenth century colonial elite | |
468447263 | The high natural fertility of the colonial population | Led to the increase of American population to one-third of England's in 1775 | |
468447264 | the lack of artistic concerns, cultural tradtion, and leisure in the colonies | Forced the migration of colonial artists to Britian to study and persue artisitic careers | |
468447265 | The Zenger case | Marked the beginnings of freedom of printed political expression in the colonies | |
468447266 | Upper-class fear of "democratic excesses" by poor whites | Reinforced colonial property qualifications for voting | |
468447267 | The Great Awakening | Stimulated a fervent, emotional style of religion, denominational divisions, and a greater sense of inter-colonial American identity |