APUSH Chapter 5 Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution Flashcards

American Pageant 15th edition chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

1766060139	Scots-Irish	group that settled the frontier, made whiskey, and hated the British and other governmental authorities	0
1766060140	Paxton Boys	Scots-Irish frontiersmen who protested against colonial elites of Pennsylvania and North Carolina	1
1766060141	Molasses Act	attempt by British authorities to squelch colonial trade with French West Indies	2
1766060142	Anglican Church	established religion in southern colonies and New York; weakened by lackadaisical clergy and too-close ties with British crown	3
1766060143	Jonathan Edwards	brilliant New England theologian who instigated the Great Awakening	4
1766060144	George Whitefield	itinerant British evangelist who spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies	5
1766060145	Phillis Wheatley	former slave who became a poet at an early age	6
1766060146	Benjamin Franklin	author, scientist, printer; "the first civilized American"	7
1766060147	John Peter Zenger	colonial printer whose case helped begin freedom of the press	8
1766060148	John Singleton Copley	colonial painter who studied and worked in Britain	9
1766060149	Regulator	Rebellious movement of frontiersmen in the southern colonies that included future President Andrew Jackson	10
1766060150	Jayle Bird	Popular term for convicted criminals dumped on colonies by British authorities	11
1766060151	Praying Town	Term for New England settlements where Indians from various tribes were gathered to be Christianized	12
1766060152	Triangle Trade	Small but profitable trade route that linked New England, Africa, and the West Indies	13
1766060153	Tavern	Popular colonial centers of recreation, gossip, and political debate	14
1766060154	Great Awakening	Spectacular, emotional religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s	15
1766060155	Michel-Guillaume de Crevecour	French settler who posed the question of what "American" is after seeing people in America like he had never seen before. American really became a mixture of many nationalities.	16
1766060156	Andrew Hamilton	Scottish Lawyer who had a legal victory on behave of printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger	17
1766060157	Presbyterian Church	the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of John Calvin	18
1766060158	John Trumbull	American Artist, painted the Deceleration of Independence which is on the back of the 2 dollar bill.	19
1766060159	Firm Social Pyramid of the South	Plantation owners, small farmers,landless whites (renting), indentured servants (less popular after Bacon's Rebellion)	20