a board with printed Scripture and the alphabet
hornbook
general who led the British troops in the French and Indian War
General Braddock
a renowned Boston silversmith
Paul Revere
sparsely populated land on the edge of a settlement
frontier
place where the great revival of the 1700s was called the Great Awakening
America
nickname of the middle colonies
"bread colonies"
the title of Jonathan Edward's most famous sermon
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
the title given to the chief executive officer of a colony
governor
a type of craftsman who shod horses and forged tools, farm implements, and wagon parts
blacksmith
the term for boys who were placed under a craftsman to learn a trade
apprentices
act that taxed legal documents
Stamp Act
the act that made it legal to force colonists to supply housing for British soldiers
Quartering Act
proclamation that barred settlements in all lands west of the Appalachians
Proclamation of 1763
the name of the local militia unit led by George Washington
Virginia Rangers
French name for the English fort they captured at the beginning of the French and Indian War
Fort Duquesne
encouraged founding of public libraries
Benjamin Franklin
William Billings
helped to introduce the smallpox vaccine
Cotton Mather
religious group that wrote the first classical music to be composed in America
Moravians
Englishman who was a leader in America's Great Awakening
George Whitefield
best-known missionary to the Indians
David Brainerd
preached to crowds of up to 20,000 people
George Whitefield
organized the Methodist denomination in England
John Wesley
colonial America's foremost theologian
Jonathan Edwards
astronomer who built an all-wood clock
Benjamin Banneker