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| Jonathon Edwards | Disagreed with salvation through good works and reaffirmed our dependence on God's grace; passionate preaching style. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Known for the Poor Richard's Almanack, which he edited from 1732 to 1758. Emphasized thrift, industry, morality, and common sense. |
| Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur | A French settler in America that saw America in the 1770s as a "strange mixture of blood." |
| George Whitefield | Used an evangelical preaching; result revolutionized the spiritual life of colonies. |
| John Peter Zenger | A newspaper printer; newspaper assailed the corrupt royal governor. Taken to court, defended by Andrew Hamilton; determined to be not guilty by the jurty. |
| Phyllis Wheatley | A poet slave girl brought to Boston when eight; published a book of verse in England when twenty, and later wrote other poems as well. |
| John S. Copley | Went to England to train; became famous painter; considered a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War. |
| Paxton Boys | Protesting the Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy toward the Indians in 1764; involved many Scots-Irish. |
| Great Awakening | A religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s. Ignited in Massachusetts by Edwards, and continued in Whitefield and others. |
| Catawba nation | Nation of the southern piedmont regions, which was formed from the remnants of several different Native American tribes. |
| Regulator movement | Many Scots-Irish involved in a small insurrection against eastern domination of the colony's affairs; North Carolina. |
| old and new lights | Old lights were orthodox clergymen who were skeptical of the emotionalism and theatrical antics; New lights defended the Awakening. |
| triangular trade | American merchants sold to the Caribbean sugar islands, took Spanish and Portugese gold, wine, and oranges to London, then got industrial goods which were sold in America. |
| Molasses Act | Passed in 1733 to try and stop North American trade with the French West Indies because British West Indies planters were suffering; passed by Parliament; Americans just bribed and smuggled, ignoring the law because they would have been hurt by it. |
| Scots-Irish | Scots Lowlanders, made up seven percent of the population of Ireland in 1775. Many abandoned Ireland and came ot America in the early seventeen hundreds. |
