| 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 |
