Largest city in colonial America
Philadelphia
Trade routes the colonies followed
Triangular
Determined an individual’s social class in colonial America
Wealth
Most widely used textbook in colonial America
New England Primer
Paddle shaped board with a printed sheet that was used to learn to read
hornbook
School founded by Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia Academy
Fist regularly published weekly newspaper in the colonies
Boston News-Letter
Author of Poor Richard’s Almanac
Benjamin Franklin
Agreement that granted church membership to unconverted descendants of church members
Halfway Covenant
Denomination John and Charles Wesley helped organize
Methodist
What was the Great Awakening called in Britain
Methodist or Evangelical Revival
What was the French and Indian War called in Europe
Seven Years War
German immigrants who demonstrated a zeal for missionary work
Moravians
Idea that colonies existed solely for the good of their mother country
Mercantilism
Preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Jonathan Edwards
First poet of African descent in America
Phillis Wheatley
University founded to train Native Americans as missionaries to their own people
Dartmouth
Correctly predicted an eclipse in 1789
Benjamin Banneker
What act taxed legal documents
Stamp Act
Type of legislative body composed of two houses
Bicameral
Most powerful voice of the Great Awakening
George Whitefield
Helped introduce the small pox inoculation
Cotton Mather
City that was founded by the Moravians
Bethlehem
Act that said the colonies were subordinate to Britain
Declaratory Act
Young Irish member of Parliament who defended the colonies
Edmund Burke