Chapter 4 - Growth And Crisis In Colonial Society

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Household mode of production

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Families swapped labor and goods. Women and children worked in groups to spin yarn, see quilts, and shuck corn, etc.

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Women in New England

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Were consider lesser, expected to be homemakers and mothers and wives. Husband owned all their property, and they had no basic rights.

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Quakers

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A Christian movement founded by George Fox, circa 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles.

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German settlers

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Those who immigrated from german speaking countries in search of opportunity, etc. Mostly Lutheran.

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Scots-Irish settlers

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Those coming from the isles looking for new opportunities, many trying to escape religious persecution (many were Catholic).

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Diversity in the Middle Colonies

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Many migrants preserved their cultural identities by marrying within their ethnic groups and maintaining Old World customs.

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Pietism

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A 17th century movement originating in Germany in reaction to formalism and intellectualism and stressing bible study and personal religious experience.

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European Enlightenment

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An era from the 1650s to the 1780s in which cultural and intellectual forces in Western Europe emphasized reason, analysis and individualism rather than traditional lines of authority.

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Benjamin Franklin

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One of the founding fathers of the United States and in many ways “the first American”

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Jonathan Edwards

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A clergyman of the 18th century; a leader in the religious revivals of the 1730s and 1740s known as the Great Awakening.

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Georg Whitefield

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An English American cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening; was the preacher with the creepy crossed eyes.

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The Great Awakening

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An evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant colonials in the 1730s and 1740s

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New Light Presbyterians

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Presbyterians that were on board with the Great Awakening

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New colleges

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Schools that popped up in result of the great awakening

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Baptists

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Christian denomination that advocates that baptism of adult only believers by total immersion

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French and Indian War

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The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from the parent countries. Ended salutary neglect.

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The Albany Congress

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A meeting of representatives sent by legislatures of the northern seven of the thirteen British colonies.

Question 17

Seven Years War

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The French and Indian War

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Treaty of Paris of 1763

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Ended the French and Indian War

Question 19

Chief Pontiac

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Chief that began Pontiac’s War, in which natives attacked British forts and settlements.

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The Proclamation of 1763

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Officially claimed British territory won during the Seven Years War, which also forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn past the Appalachian mountains.

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Paxton Boys

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A vigilante group to retaliate in 1763 against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s Rebellion.

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Regulator Movements

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An organized effort by backcountry settlers to restore law and order and establish institutions of local government.

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The Zenger Trial

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Set a precedent for establishing freedom of the press in America.