| A | B |
|---|
| Philadelphia | largest American city in 1775 |
| Lutherans | German immigrants sometimes called the Pennsylvania Dutch |
| Scotts-Irish | Presbyterian immigrants from Northern Ireland who settled in the backcountry of the Carolinas, Virginia and Pa. |
| Great Wagon Road | path down the Shenandoah Valley and into the Carolinas followed by Scots-Irish and Germans in search of new land |
| Paxton Boys | Scots-Irish rebels who murdered friendly Indians and defied Pennsylvania government protection of the Indians |
| regulators | western North Carolina rebellion against the power of Eastern planters |
| Scots Highlanders | emigrated to America after defeat by the English at the Battle of Culloden |
| bleeding | a favorite medical remedy of the 17th century |
| cowpox | source of a crude vaccination for smallpox |
| smallpox | epidemic killer in colonial America |
| diptheria | very deadly to colonial children |
| bread colonies | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey |
| triangular trade | rum from New England to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Indies, sugar and molasses from the West Indies to New England |
| Kill Devil rum | distilled in New England in large quantities |
| ship building | along with lumbering, the most important industry in the colonies |
| naval stores | tar, pitch, turpentine, rosin |
| natural increase | rate of populaton increase by births |
| Molasses Act | aimed at preventing North American trade with the French West Indies |
| smuggling | common way around the Molasses Act and other mercantile laws |
| established churches | churches supported by tax money (Anglican and Congregational) |
| Prebyterianism | calvinist church usually found among Scots Irish communities |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin's popular book containing weather forecasts, folk wisdom and witty sayings |
| Great Awakening | PUritan religious revival led by Jonathan Edwards |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Jonathan Edwards most famous sermon |
| George Whitfield | leader of the emotional "New Light" type of preaching |
| Old Lights | orthodox, old style clergymen |
| Princeton, Brown, Rutgers | colleges founded to train New Light clergy |
| University of Pennsylvania | founded by Ben Franklin, a non-sectarian school |
| John Trumbull, Charles Wilson Peale, Benjamin West, John Singleton | famous colonial artists |
| Georgian style | architecture featuring regal style and red brick |
| Phyllis Wheatley | slave girl turned poet in colonial America |
| Benjamin Franklin | inventor, author, publisher and scientist, the most famous American in pre-revolutionary America |
| Peter Zenger | publisher arrested for sedition and libel in the first freedom of the press case in America |
| libel | the truth is a defense against this charge |
| self-taxation through representation | the norm in colonial governments |
| common voting restrictions | church affiliation, birth class, property ownership |
| "can see to can't see" | period of daily labor in colonial life |
| buzzards and hogs | colonial waste disposal |
| muster days | periodic gathering of the militia for training and socializing |
| drinking, funerals, wedding, husking bees, quilting bees | colonial entertainment |
| dancing | common in the South, frowned on in the North |
| Christmas | frowned on in New England |
| social mobility | the ability of enterprising, creative individuals to better their lot in life |
| self-rule | one of the key agents binding the colonies together |
