Key People
One of America's leading intellectual figures of the time, also a wealthy businessman and printer, and widely considered an American Founding Father.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
European idea of human reason to help understand and mold the world that spread to America.
What is the Enlightenment?
A religious movement of renewed faith in America during the early 1700s.
What is the Great Revival or Revival.
Which two major cultural events impacted Colonial America?
What is the Enlightenment and Pietism?
This man led the New England Revivalism.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
A "New Light" minister that took America by storm, leaving England to preach from Georgia to Massachusetts.
Who is George Whitefield?
An evangelical Christian movement that emphasized an individual's personal relationship with God.
What is Pietism?
The Colonists purchasing of many consumer goods from England leading the Colonists to being in debt and later a recession.
What is the consumer revolution?
Subordinate to men, oftentimes lost their property upon marriage.
Who are women in farming households?
This cultural and religious movement in the Colonies would challenge authority, and set the stage for the American Revolution.
What is the Great Awakening?
This British General that led the English to victory in the Seven Years' War (French Indian War), greatly expanding Britain's empire in the Americas as well as abroad.
Who is William Pitt?
Independent mode of thinking about God and the natural world adopted by both Jefferson and Franklin.
What is Deism?
This term describes settlers who lived on land illegally not being able to afford the land in hopes to one day own it or claim title to the land.
Who are squatters?
This plan, created by Benjamin Franklin in 1754, was to unite the 13 colonies but was not approved.
What is the Albany Plan?
Many African Americans in the South joined this group that preached all people were created equal, and adults could be born again.
What is the Baptist Church? This period of time is known as the Baptist Insurgency.
English philosopher that was a major contributor to the Enlightenment. His writings emphasizing "life, liberty, and the pursuit of property", found itself into American political discourse and writings appearing in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
The idea that people will entitled to life, liberty, and property. People must give their consent to be governed.
What are Natural Rights?
This division of and specialization of labor within a household, and the swapping and bartering of goods and services.
What is the household mode of production?
Many Scots left Ireland and settled in America due to this act that allowed only members of the Church of England to vote.
What is the Irish Test Act of 1704?
This conflict in the Ohio Valley was fought over power and control of territory in the West.
What is the French Indian War or Seven Years' War?
Native American that led uprising in the West following the end of French Indian War, attacking Detroit and several other forts.
Who is Pontiac?
Older ministers pre Great Awakening that criticized "New Lights".
Old Lights.
Land owning vigilantes in the backcountry of South Carolina that demanded more rights and less taxes.
Who are the Regulators?
The development of roads and infrastructure in the Americas during the 1700s led to this revolution of letters and writing?
What is the Print Revolution?
This group of Scotts Irish massacred 20 Indians in Pennsylvania in 1763. This conflict stemmed from contested land between Native Americans and Colonial settlers that led to violence on both sides of the issue.
Who are the Paxton Boys?