APUSH Chapter 5

American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated the Great Awakening, a period of renewed interest in religion in America

One of the few Americans who was highly respected in Europe, primarily due to his discoveries in the field of electricity. He was also the author of Poor Richard's Almanac.

A French settler who posed the classic question on the racial identity of an "American"

Masterful orator, rekindled the religiousness of the colonies during the Great Awakening. He was a leader of the "new lights"

A newspaper printer from New York, was arrested and tried for seditious libel for attacking the royal governor. He was acquitted with the help of his lawyer, Alexander Hamilton. This was a huge step for the freedom of the press.

A slave girl from Boston, became a distinguished poet and was brought to England, where she published a book of her verses

An American painter who fled to England to avoid the American Revolution, as he was regarded as a Loyalist.

An American painter, was forced to go overseas to England to complete his training and find subjects to gain a living.

An accomplished American painter, was discouraged from painting in Connecticut because of lack of artistic culture, and moved to London

An American painter famous for his portraits of George Washington who dabbled in a variety of other areas, such as taxonomy and dentistry.

One of the worst colonial governors, was a cousin of Queen Anne, who made him governor of New York and New Jersey.

The fear that the pope would send representatives and bring Catholicism back to the colonies, leading to the eradication of "Catholic" holidays, such as Christmas.

False publication intended to ruin someone's reputation

A verbal attack on someone's reputation

A group of Scots-Irish from the outskirts of Philadelphia, protested the Quakers' leniency toward the Indians. Their actions sparked the Regulator Movement in North Carolina

A period of huge religious revival throughout the colonies, sparked by a few strong religious speakers, called the "new lights."

The practice of landlords greatly increasing the rent of their tenants, forcing already impoverished tenants to pay more

A movement in North Carolina where dissenters, mostly Scots-Irish, believed that tax money was being dealt unfairly

Conservative clergymen who were against the emotional approach of the Great Awakening

Clergymen who defended the Great Awakening for reinvigorating American religion

The crime of openly criticizing a public official

A trade between America, the West Indies, and Africa, which some colonists took advantage of after the fall of the Royal African Company, and yielded great profits to its merchants.

An act intended to end American trade with the French West Indies passed by Britain, which was largely overridden by smuggling and bribery.

A group of people from the Scottish lowlands, who migrated restlessly, moving to Ireland, and ending up in North America. They were very separate from other cultures, and were largely very poor

Materials used to build and maintain ships, such as tar, pitch, rosin, and turpentine

Germans who migrated from Europe to Pennsylvania fleeing religious persecution, as they were primarily Lutheran. "Dutch" was a corruption of "Deutsch"

French protestants who came to the New World to escape religious prosecution in France

Scots from the highlands of Scotland

British convicts who were shipped to America involuntarily. They included robbers, rapists, and murderers, but some were simply highly respectable citizens who had simply had been victimized by the strict English penal code

A church grown out of the Puritan church, was established in all New England colonies but Rhode Island. It was based on the belief that individual churches should govern themselves

Churches funded by taxes, such as the Anglican and Congregational churches

Houses designated to aid the widows and orphans of Philadelphia and New York

The most powerful members of a society

To reject

Not church-affiliated

A hypothesis

Limited in outlook to ones own small corner of the world

A meeting meant to revive interest in a religion

A bestselling book written by Benjamin Franklin that was a compilation of many different sayings

One of the pseudonyms used by newspaper columnists on the eve of the Revolution, meaning "For the Public Good"

A society with a great diversity of cultures and races

The arrangement of classes in social structure

A code governing crimes and punishment

Rifts in belief between two opposing parties

A branch of Protestantism which was influenced greatly by Calvinism

Disciplining a child by being hit with a branch of a birch tree

One of Jonathan Edwards' most famous sermons, which warned listeners of Hell

A church founded by Roger Williams, which was largely based on Calvinism

Intensely emotional

Classic or accepted

Fond of fighting