Chapter/Packet 5

Question 1

borderlands

Answer 1

a district near the line separating two countries or areas

Question 2

Paxton Boys

Answer 2

On December 14, 1763, about 57 drunken settlers from Paxton, Pennsylvania, slaughtered 20 innocent and defenseless Susquehannock (Conestoga) Indians, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, whom they suspected of connivance with other Native Americans who had been pillaging and scalping.

Question 3

Regulator movement

Answer 3

also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina from 1766 to 1771 in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials, whom they viewed as corrupt.

Question 4

New York slave revolt

Answer 4

of 1712 was an uprising in New York City, in the Province of New York, of 23 Black slaves. They killed nine whites and injured another six before they were stopped. More than 70 black people were arrested and jailed. Of these, 27 were put on trial, and 21 convicted and executed.

Question 5

South Carolina slave revolt (Stono River)

Answer 5

was a slave revolt that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave rebellion in the Southern Colonies, with 25 colonists and 35 to 50 Africans killed.

Question 6

triangular trade

Answer 6

is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. It has been used to offset trade imbalances between different regions.

Question 7

Molasses Act

Answer 7

a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies.

Question 8

Arminianism

Answer 8

is a branch of Protestantism based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius and his historic supporters known as Remonstrants. Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the Remonstrance, a theological statement submitted to the States General of the Netherlands.

Question 9

Great Awakening

Answer 9

a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s.

Question 10

old lights

Answer 10

adherents to the more traditional, unemotional faith,

Question 11

new lights

Answer 11

God had brought new light into their lives through their emotional conversion experiences.

Question 12

Poor Richard’s Almanack

Answer 12

which Benjamin Franklin began publishing on December 28, 1732, and went on to publish for 25 years, was created for the purpose of promoting his printing business.

Question 13

Zenger trial

Answer 13

a New York printer, was an important step toward this most precious freedom for American colonists.

Question 14

royal colonies

Answer 14

a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state.

Question 15

proprietary colonies

Answer 15

a colony granted to some individual or individuals with the fullest prerogatives of government

Question 16

Michel-Guillaume Jean
de Crèvecoeur

Answer 16

French-American author and naturalist Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crèvecoeur provided a broad picture of life in the New World. His charming style, keen eye, and simple philosophy have been universally admired. Crèvecoeur was born in Caen, France, on January 31, 1735, to a prosperous landowning family.

Question 17

Jacobus Arminius

Answer 17

Dutch Jacob Harmensen or Jacob Hermansz, (born October 10, 1560, Oudewater, Netherlands—died October 19, 1609, Leiden), theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who opposed the strict Calvinist teaching on predestination and who developed in reaction a theological system known later as

Question 18

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 18

1703–1758) is widely acknowledged to be America’s most important and original philosophical theologian. His work as a whole is an expression of two themes — the absolute sovereignty of God and the beauty of God’s holiness.

Question 19

George Whitefield

Answer 19

together with John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founded the Methodist movement. An Anglican evangelist and the leader of Calvinistic Methodists, he was the most popular preacher of the Evangelical Revival in Great Britain and the Great Awakening in America.

Question 20

John Trumbull

Answer 20

was an American painter, diplomat and architect. He is noted for his four large history paintings in the Capitol Rotunda, which depict pivotal moments before, during and after the Revolutionary War.

Question 21

John Singleton Copley

Answer 21

American artist John Singleton Copley is one of the most renowned colonial-era painters. He is known for portraits of important figures such as Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams, as well as for dramatic scenes such as the National Gallery’s Watson and the Shark (1778).

Question 22

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 22

In 1773, Phillis Wheatley accomplished something that no other woman of her status had done. When her book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, appeared, she became the first American slave, the first person of African descent, and only the third colonial American woman to have her work published.

Question 23

John Peter Zenger

Answer 23

Zenger’s case established that truth cannot be libelous
The importance of the case is that it established the principle, now firmly embedded in U.S. law, that truthful information cannot be libelous. Alexander Hamilton used this argument in the case of People v. Croswell (N.Y.