Guide c05 Flashcards
5:1 – Paxton Boys and Regulator Movement
Paxton-back country boys in Pennsylvania attack gov-protected Indians, Ben Franklin and other rich people deal with relatively nicely, backcountry gets representation
Regulator-Carolinas, creditors try to trick farmers w/help of lawyers/judges, farmers threaten/beat lawyers/judges + burn courthouses, get representation
S-idea of taxation w/o representation, give representation
5:2 – Navigation Acts
Navigation Acts were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies. They began in 1651 and ended 200 years later.
5:3 – Molasses Act
he Molasses Act of March 1726 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 6 Geo II. c. 13), which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies. Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British East Isles.
5:4 – Jonathan Edwards – “Sinners in the hands…”
Edward’s most famous sermon, “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God”, describes hell as eternal torment, and its “paved wit the skulls of unbaptized children”
s-?
5:5 – Great Awakening
religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s, spread quickly, started by Jonathan Edwards
s-made religion more liberal
5:6 – John Peter Zenger
Newspaper printer, tried for writing bad about the royal governor in new york, defended in trial by former servant Andrew Hamilton
s-started freedom of the press