AP 5 terms
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1. Pennsylvania Dutch - Corruption of a German word used as a term for German immigrants in Pennsylvania.
2. 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.
3. Paxton Boys and Regulators - Rebellious movement of North Carolina frontiersmen against eastern domination that included future President Andrew Jackson.
4. Convicts - Popular term for convicted criminals dumped on colonies by British authorities.
5. Smallpox - Dread disease that afflicted one out of every five colonial Americans, including George Washington.
6. Fishing Industry - Lucrative profession, especially prevalent in New England, that marketed its product to the Catholic nations of southern Europe.
7. Triangular Trade - Small but profitable trade route that linked New England, Africa, and the West Indies.
8. Taverns - Popular colonial centers of recreation, gossip, and political debate.
9. Established Churches - Term for tax-supported condition of Congregational and Anglican churches, but not of Baptists, Quakers, and Roman Catholics.
10. Great Awakening - Spectacular, emotional religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s.
11. New Lights - Ministers who supported the Great Awakening against the old light clergy who rejected it.
12. Arminians - Followers of a Dutch theologian who challenged traditional Calvinist doctrine by arguing for free will and the dispensation of divine grace beyond a few elect.
13. Zenger Case - The case that established the precedent that true statements about public officials could not be prosecuted as libel.
14. University of Pennsylvania - The first American college not to be sponsored by a religious denomination, strongly supported by Benjamin Franklin.
15. Poor Richard’s Almanack - Benjamin Franklin’s highly popular collection of information, parables, and advice.
16. Philadelphia - Leading city of the colonies; home of Benjamin Franklin.
17. African Americans - Largest non-English group in the colonies.
18. Scots-Irish - Group that settled the frontier, made whiskey, and hated the British and other governmental authorities.
19. Paxton Boys and Regulators - Scots-Irish frontiersmen who protested against colonial elites of Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
20. Patrick Henry - Eloquent lawyer-orator who argued in defense of colonial rights.
21. Molasses Act - Attempt by British authorities to squelch colonial trade with French West Indies.
22. Anglican Church - Established religion in southern colonies and New York; weakened by lackadaisical clergy and too-close ties with the British crown.
23. Jonathan Edwards - Brilliant New England theologian who instigated the Great Awakening.
24. George Whitefield - Itinerant British evangelist who spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies.
25. Phillis Wheatley - Former slave who became a poet at an early age.
26. Benjamin Franklin - Author, scientist, printer; “the first civilized American.”
27. John Peter Zenger - Colonial printer whose case helped begin freedom of the press.
28. Quakers - Dominant religious group in colonial Pennsylvania, criticized by others for their attitudes toward Indians.
29. Baptists - Non-established religious group that benefited from the Great Awakening.
30. John Singleton Copley - Colonial painter who studied and worked in Britain.
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