CHPT.5 APUSH Vocab.

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Paxton Boys
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They were a group of Scots-Irish men living in the Appalachian hills that wanted protection from Indian attacks. They made an armed march on Philadelphia in 1764. They protested the lenient way that the Quakers treated the Indians. Their ideas started the Regulator Movement in North Carolina.
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Regulator movement
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It was a movement during the 1760's by western North Carolinians, mainly Scots-Irish, that resented the way that the Eastern part of the state dominated political affairs. They believed that the tax money was being unevenly distributed. Many of its members joined the American Revolutionists.
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triangular trade
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A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa.
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Molasses Act
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(1733) A British law that imposed a tax on sugar, molasses, and rum imported from non-British colonies into North American colonies. It was intended to maintain the monopoly of the American sugar market by the West Indies sugarcane growers. It was the least successful of the Navigation Acts, since it was avoided by smuggling.
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Arminianism
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16th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty.
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Great Awakening
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(1730s and 1740s) Religious movement characterized by emotional preaching (Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield). The first cultural movement to unite the Thirteen Colonies. Associated with the democratization of religion.
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old lights
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Conservative clergymen who were against the emotional approach of the Great Awakening.
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new lights
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Clergymen who defended the Great Awakening for reinvigorating American religion.
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Poor Richard's Almanak
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A bestselling book written by Benjamin Franklin that was a compilation of many different sayings.
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Zenger Trial
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Achieved freedom of the press, made newspapers allowed to print criticisms of powerful officials.
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royal colonies
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Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
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proprietary colonies
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Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors, subject to the king's approval.
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Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur
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French settler who wrote about the diversity of the "new man"; the American made of the mixture of many cultural backgrounds, English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch and German as well as African.
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Jacobus Arminius
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A Dutch theologian who was the head of the Armenians. His main doctrine taught that an individual's free will, not predestination, determined a person's holiness or damnation.
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Jonathan Edwards
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American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)
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George Whitefield
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(1739) Stressed that God was all powerful and would save only those who openly professed faith in Christ Jesus. Taught that with sincere faith, ordinary people could understand scripture without ministers.
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John Trumbull
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American artist and painter who painted four panels in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington: The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and The Resignation of General Washington.
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John Singleton Copley
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American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815).
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Phillis Wheatley
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First African American female writer to be published in the United States. Her book Poems on Various Subjects was published in 1773, pioneered African-American literature. One of the most well- known poets in America during her day; first African American to get a volume of poetry published.
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John Peter Zenger
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Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued, and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found not guilty.