APUSH chapter 5

Paxton Boys

was an armed march on Philadelphia in 1764. They were protesting the Quaker oligarchy's policy toward the Indians because they felt that it was too lenient.

Regulator movement

came a few years after the march of the Paxton Boys and took place in North Carolina. It was a rebellion against eastern control of colonial matters.

NY slave revolt

A slave revolt in New York

SC slave revolt

A slave revolt in South Carolina

Triangular trade

took place between the colonies of North America, Africa, and the West Indies. They traded things such as molasses, rum, and slaves. This trade was immensely profitable for those involved.

Molasses Act

was an act passed by Parliament designed to stop North American trade with the West Indies. It attempted to stop the trade by placing a tax on imported molasses. The act was a failure due to all of the smuggling.

Arminianism

the belief that salvation is available to all humans and that humans have free will to make the choice for salvation all by themselves. This belief is highly contradictory to the Calvinist belief system.

Great Awakening

took place in the 1730s and 1740s and was a religious revival that spread throughout the colonies. The revival place great emphasis on direct and emotional spirituality.

Old Lights/New Lights

were orthodox clergymen that were uncomfortable with the spiritual and emotional ideas of the revivalists. other group were in complete support of the revival because it reviving American religion.

Poor Richard's Almanack

Benjamin Franklin was best known for his contemporaries for this piece which he edited from 1732 to 1758. This famous publication, containing many pithy saying culled from the thinkers of the ages, emphasized such homespun virtues as thrift, industry, morality, and common sense. It was well known in Europe and was more widely read in America than anything except the Bible.

Zenger trial

took place between 1734 and 1735 in New York. It was a libel case against John Peter Zenger. This case established the principal that truthful statements about public officials could not be considered libelous.

Royal colonies

had governors that were appointed by the King of England. These governors often had problems with colonial legislatures because they resented the control of England.

Proprietary colonies

had local proprietors that appointed governors. These colonies were located in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur

French settler on America in the 1770's; he 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.

Jacobus Arminius

a Dutch Reformed minister and theologian during the Protestant Reformation period whose views became the basis of Arminianism and the Dutch Remonstrant movement.

Jonathan Edwards

The Great Awakening was started by him and took place between the 1730s and 1740s. he was an active preacher who taught that people could be saved only by God's grace and never through good works. One of his most famous was entitled, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." In this sermon he boldly claimed that Hell was, "paved with the skulls of unbaptized children.

George Whitefield

was another preacher during the Great Awakening but he was much different from Jonathan Edwards. George Whitefield had a magnificent and loud voice that made even the actors jealous. Whitefield preached a message of human helplessness and divine omnipotence.

John Trumbull

an American painter and military officer best known for his historical paintings of the American Revolutionary War, of which he was a veteran. He has been called the "Painter of the Revolution".

John Singleton Copley

A famous Revolutionary era painter, traveled to England to finish his study of the arts. Only in the Old World could he find subjects with the leisure time required to be painted, and the money needed to pay him for it. was loyal to England during The Revolution.

Phillis Wheatley

a slave girl who became a poet. At age eight, she was brought to Boston. published a book of poetry at age 20

John Peter Zenger

was a newspaper printer. he was the subject of a famous trial in 1734-1735. his newspaper was charged with libel, in court he was defended by former indentured servant, Andrew Hamilton. he was declared not guilty, this was a great achievement in the fight for freedom of the press.