USHIS05 (Vocabulary) Tools A B Philadelphia Leading city of the colonies and home of Benjamin Franklin African-Americans Largest non-English group in the colonies Scots-Irish Group that settled the frontier, made whiskey, and hated the British and other governmental authorities Paxton Boys and Regulators Scots-Irish frontiersman who protested against colonial elites of Pennsylvania and North Carolina Patrick Henry Eloquent lawyer-orator who argued in defense of colonial rights Molasses Act Attempt by British authorities to squelch colonial trade with French West Indies Anglican Church Established religion in southern colonies and New York Jonathan Edwards Brilliant New England theologian representative of the Great Awakening George Whitefield Itinerant British evangelist who spread the Great Awakening througout the colonies Phillis Wheatley Former slave who became a poet at an early age Benjamin Franklin Author, scientist, printer, the first "civilized" American John Peter Zenger Colonial printer whose case helped begin freedom of the press Lord Cornbury Example of a corrupt and incompetent royal governor Baptists Nonestablished religious group that benefited from the Great Awakening John Singleton Copley Colonial painter who studied and worked in Britain