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32 Cards in this Set
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By 1775 ___ ENG colonies in N. AM
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35 [e.g. Canada, Floridas, Caribbean Isles]
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Canada + Jamaica
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nonrebels, prosperous
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1775 4 cities =
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Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Charleston
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German
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6% esp. Lutherans in PA, "Pennsylvania Dutch" [b/c Deutsch = German]
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Scots-Irish
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Scottish lowlanders, not Irish - went to N. IRE first, hated by Catholics, wool restricted by ENG, squatters,
e.g. Andrew Jackson rack renters |
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Paxton Boys on Philly
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protest against Quakers' pro-Indian stance
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1775 Africans
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20% -- S = 90% slaves
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Most honored people
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Christian ministry
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Bleeding
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fav. [fatal] physician's remedy {if no physician = barber}
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Lawyers
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on par w/brothel owners, durnks, et.c. e.g. John Adams
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___% in agriculture
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90%
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Triangular Trade
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Slaves from Africa to New World [raw material] product sent to Old World
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Kill devil rum
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via RI + MA
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Smoking Forges
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PA
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Lumbering
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most imp. manufacturing
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What England loves from USA
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tar, pitch, resin, turpentine
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Trade Imbalance
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USA needs more goods, ENG can't take more --- USA seeks foreign trade
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Molasses Acts
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1733 ENG ruins USA trade w/W. Indies
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Anglican colonies =
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GA, NC, SC, VA, MD, 1/2NY
short sermons, better hell, more "fun", bad rep. , College of William and Mary |
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Arminions
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followers of Jacobus Arminius, for individual free will, fate, liberal heretics
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Great Awakening
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1730s, 1740s - est. in Northampton, MA by Jonathan EDWARDS [intellecutal pastor] said God's grace to depend on
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George Whitfield
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in 1738, orator, made people cry, incredible
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Old Lights
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orthodox clergymen, skeptical
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Cambridge University
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center of ENG Puritans
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Ben Franklin
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helped est. UPenn [nonsecretarian], Poor Richard's Almanac, "1st civilized American", only 1st rank scientist in USA [kite-lightning-electricity], made a stove, bifocals
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Trumbell
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of CT [1756-1843] famous painter
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Wilson-Peale
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portraits of George Washington, ran museu, stuffed birds, dentist
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Benjamin West
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ENG for training, court painter of George III,
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John Singleton Copley
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ENG for training, loyalist in Rev. War
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Pre-Rev. Architecture
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red-bricked Georgian style, intro-1720 e.g. Williamsburg, VA
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Phillis Wheatley
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poet, slave girl from Boston, never educated, published in ENG,
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Lord Cornbury
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1st cousin of Queen Anne, gov. NY + NJ in 1702, drunk, bigot, dressed like a woman
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