Colonies to Nation Vocabulary
A gathering in which residents need to make a decision for the community
Town meeting
A. A religious revival in the 1730‘s and 40s
The great awakening
An organized attempt to improve conditions of life
Social reform
Many reformers supported what organized effort to and alcohol abuse
Temperance movement
Is land that forms the farthest extent of a nation settle the regions
Frontier
A Massachusetts preacher, leader, and the believer of God
Jonathan Edwards
This man accomplished and established freedom of the press in the colonies
John Peter Zenger
Is a huge outdoor religious meeting
Revival
What man led the education reform
Horace Mann
Extending the nation beyond its existing borders is white
Expansion
The right of newspapers and other public media to publish articles believed to be accurate
Freedom of the press
A European period in the late 1600s of people considering themselves in lightened
Enlightenment
Reformers if you wanted to abolish or end slavery
Abolitionist
The underground railroad was led by this ex slave
Harriet Tubman
To give up
cede
The publishing of statements that unjustly damage a person‘s reputation
Libel
This man concluded that people have natural rights to life liberty and property
John Locke
The unique importance of each individual
individualism
What convention marked the start of an organized effort to win more rights for American women
The Seneca Falls convention
The practice of having more than one wife at a time
Polygamy
This man was the publisher of the weekly journal, a newspaper in New York City in 1734
John Peter Zenger
The victory of what battle boosted patriot confidence and convinced France that the colonist had a chance to win independence
The battle of Saratoga
The idea that people should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their consciens demand it
Civil disobedience
Poetry and art we’re at new Heights in what era
1800’s
Self appointed light enforcers were called what
Vigilantes