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| Armed march on Philadelphia by Scots-Irish frontiersmen in protest against the Quaker establishments' lenient policies toward Native Americans. |
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| Eventually violent uprising of backcountry settlers in North Carolina against unfair taxation & the control of colonial affairs by the seaboard elite. |
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| Exchange of rum, slaves, & molasses between the North American Colonies, Africa, & the West Indies. A small but immensely profitable subset of the Atlantic trade. |
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| Tax on imported molasses passed by Parliament in an effort to squelch the North American trade with the French West Indies. It proved largely ineffective due to widespread smuggling. |
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| Belief that salvation is offered to all humans but is conditional on acceptance of God's grace. Different from Calvinism, which emphasizes predestination & unconditional election. |
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| Religious revival that swept the colonies. Participating ministers, most notably Johnathan Edwards & George Whitefield, placed an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality. A second Great Awakening arose in the 19th century. |
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| Orthodox clergymen who rejected the emotionalism of the Great Awakening in favor of a more relational spirituality. |
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| Ministers who took part in the revivalist, emotive religious traditions pioneered by George Whitefield during the Great Awakening. |
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| Widely read annual pamphlet edited by Benjamin Franklin. Best known for its proverbs & aphorisms emphasizing thrift, industry, morality, & common sense. |
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| New York libel case against John Peter Zenger. Established the principle that truthful statements about public officials could not be prosecuted as libel. |
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| Colonies where governors were appointed directly by the King. Though often competent administrators, the governors frequently ran into trouble with colonial legislatures, which represented the imposition of control from across the Atlantic. |
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| Colonies-Maryland, Pennsylvania, & Delaware-under the control of local proprieters, who appointed colonial governors. |
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| Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur |
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| French settler who wrote about the melting pot of America in the 1700s. |
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| Dutch theologian whose teachings created the threatening belief to Calvinism, Arminianism. |
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| His fiery sermons sparked the Great Awakening in America; one of the best theologians ever. |
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| One of the greatest orators of his time; Englishman who visited America often to be another leader in the Great Awakening. |
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| Young painter who had to move to London due to lack of education in the colonies. |
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| Another aspiring painter who had to move to England to complete his education. |
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| Uneducated slave girl who wrote multiple books of poems. |
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| Newspaper printer whose trial was monumental in gaining freedom of the press towards elected officials. |
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