Chapter 4 - Growth And Crisis In Colonial Society Flashcards
Household mode of production
Families swapped labor and goods. Women and children worked in groups to spin yarn, see quilts, and shuck corn, etc.
Women in New England
Were consider lesser, expected to be homemakers and mothers and wives. Husband owned all their property, and they had no basic rights.
Quakers
A Christian movement founded by George Fox, circa 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles.
German settlers
Those who immigrated from german speaking countries in search of opportunity, etc. Mostly Lutheran.
Scots-Irish settlers
Those coming from the isles looking for new opportunities, many trying to escape religious persecution (many were Catholic).
Diversity in the Middle Colonies
Many migrants preserved their cultural identities by marrying within their ethnic groups and maintaining Old World customs.
Pietism
A 17th century movement originating in Germany in reaction to formalism and intellectualism and stressing bible study and personal religious experience.
European Enlightenment
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.
Benjamin Franklin
One of the founding fathers of the United States and in many ways “the first American”
Jonathan Edwards
A clergyman of the 18th century; a leader in the religious revivals of the 1730s and 1740s known as the Great Awakening.
Georg Whitefield
An English American cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening; was the preacher with the creepy crossed eyes.
The Great Awakening
An evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant colonials in the 1730s and 1740s
New Light Presbyterians
Presbyterians that were on board with the Great Awakening
New colleges
Schools that popped up in result of the great awakening
Baptists
Christian denomination that advocates that baptism of adult only believers by total immersion
French and Indian War
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.
The Albany Congress
A meeting of representatives sent by legislatures of the northern seven of the thirteen British colonies.
Seven Years War
The French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Ended the French and Indian War
Chief Pontiac
Chief that began Pontiac’s War, in which natives attacked British forts and settlements.
The Proclamation of 1763
Officially claimed British territory won during the Seven Years War, which also forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn past the Appalachian mountains.
Paxton Boys
A vigilante group to retaliate in 1763 against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s Rebellion.
Regulator Movements
An organized effort by backcountry settlers to restore law and order and establish institutions of local government.
The Zenger Trial
Set a precedent for establishing freedom of the press in America.
