18th Century Growth
The amount by which the population was increasing every 25 years in the colonies.
What is doubling?
New York and Philadelphia built these to care for the homeless, widows and children, left behind from prior wars.
This was founded in 1693 to train a better class of clerics.
What is the college of William and Mary?
Often called “the first civilized American,” he was best known to his contemporaries for Poor Richard’s Almanack.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The 4 communities that could actually be called cities by 1775.
What are Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Charleston?
The belief that people don’t have a predestined fate, but instead that people had the individual free will to
become a follower of Christ.
What is Arminianism?
This case changed the perspective on freedom of speech and dealings with royal authority in the colonies.
What is the Peter Zenger Trial?
The percentage of the population that lived in rural areas.
What is 90%?
What is the Christian ministry?
A rousing religious revival that exploded in the 1730s and 1740s and swept through the colonies like a fire through prairie grass. Jonathan Edwards was one of the first famous revival preachers under this movement.
What is the Great Awakening?
They led the armed march on Philadelphia in 1764, protesting the Quaker oligarchy’s lenient policy toward the Indians, and a few years later spearheaded the Regulator movement in North Carolina.
Who are the Paxton Boys?
What is 16 years old?
What is the Molasses Act?
The Orthodox clergymen who were deeply skeptical of the emotionalism and the theatrical antics of the revivalists, were called.
What are the old lights?
They were led by a two house legislative body that was involved with the crown. For instance, the upper house was decided by the crown, and then the lower house was elected by the wealthy people who owned land.
What were Royal Colonies?
The number of people in the 13 colonies by 1775.
What is 2.5 million?
The trading system between the colonies and west indices, to the Gold Coast in Africa, and then to England.
What is the triangular trade?
This influential church, which had grown out of the Puritan Church, was formally established in all the New England colonies.
What is the Congregational Church?
A slave girl brought to Boston at age eight and never formally educated. Taken to England when twenty years of age, she was the first african american woman to have her poetry published.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?