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Philadelphia
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Leading city of the colonies; home of Benjamin Franklin.
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African-Americans
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Largest non-English group in the colonies
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Scots-Irish
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Group that settled the frontier, made whiskey, and hated the British and other governmental authorities.
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Paxton Boys and Regulators
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Scots-Irish frontiersmen who protested against colonial elites of Pennsylvania and North Carolina
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Patrick Henry
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Eloquent lawyer-orator who argued in defense of colonial rights.
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Mol***** Act
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Attempt by British authorities to squelch colonial trade with French West Indies
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Anglican church
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Established religion in southern colonies and New York; weakened by lackadaisical clergy and too-close ties with British crown
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Jonathan Edwards
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Brilliant New England theologian who instigated the Great Awakening
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George Whitefield
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Itinerant British evangelist who spread the Great Awakening throughout the colonies
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Phillis Wheatley
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Former slave who became a poet at an early age.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Author, scientist, printer; "the first civilized American"
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John Peter Zenger
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Colonial printer whose case helped begin freedom of the press
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Quakers
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Dominant religious group in colonial Pennsylvania, criticized by other for their at***udes toward Indians.
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Baptists
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Non-established religious group that benefited from the Great Awakening
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John Singleton Copley
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Colonial painter who studied and worked in Britain
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