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Backcountry
region stretching app. 800 miles from western PA to GA
Great Awakening
•The Great Awakening was a religious revival in American religious history. They were characterized by widespread revivals led by evangelical Protestant ministers, a sharp increase in interest in religion, a profound sense of guilt and redemption on the part of those affected
Fort Duquesne
was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania.
King Georges War
•King George's War is the name given to the operations in North America that formed part of the 1744-1748 War of the Austrian Succession. It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars
Albany Plan
•The Albany Plan was proposed by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany Congress in 1754 in Albany, New York. It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes" during the French and Indian War.
Albany Congress
•The Albany Congress, also known as the Albany Conference, was a meeting of representatives of seven of the British North American colonies in 1754 (specifically, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island).
Seven Years War
The final war between France and Great Britain, which ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 – giving all of North America to Great Britain, except New Orleans and the small islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon
Peace of Paris
•The Peace of Paris (1783) was the set of treaties which ended the American Revolutionary War. On 3 September 1783, representatives of King George III of Great Britain signed a treaty in Paris with representatives of the United States of America - commonly known as the Treaty of Paris
George Whitefield
was an Anglican itinerant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening in Great Britain and, especially, in the British North American colonies.
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America
William Pitt
was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24
General Braddock
was a British soldier and commander-in-chief for North America during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War
entrepots
is a trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit.
John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon
famous commonwealth men
John Locke
English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience
Pennsylvania Dutch
•The Pennsylvania Dutch are the descendants of Germanic peoples who emigrated to the U.S. (primarily to Pennsylvania), from Germany, Switzerland and The Low Countries prior to 1800.
Middle ground
where Am. Indians resided
Gilbert Tennent
was a religious leader
Molasses Act
•a British law of 1733 that imposed taxes on molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the American colonies, which would effectively close trade with the West Indies and destroy New England's rum industry. The colonists rarely paid the tax, choosing rather to avoid it through smuggling.
Charles Chauncy
was an Anglo-American clergyman and educator.
Cato’s Letter’s
were essays by British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon
James Davenport
was an American clergyman and itinerant preacher noted for his often controversial actions during the First Great Awakening.
“Old Lights”
•The terms Old Lights and New Lights (among others) are used in Christian circles to distinguish between two groups who were initially the same, but have come to a disagreement. These terms have been applied in a wide variety of ways, and the meaning must be determined from context.
“New Lights”
•The terms Old Lights and New Lights (among others) are used in Christian circles to distinguish between two groups who were initially the same, but have come to a disagreement. These terms have been applied in a wide variety of ways, and the meaning must be determined from context.
Evangelicals
Protestant Christian theological stream which began in Great Britain in the 1730s
Henry Muehlenberg
was a German Lutheran pastor sent to North America as a missionary.
Cotton Mather
was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer
Mestizo
•a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
Mulatto
•A person of mixed African and Caucasian descent
Transportation Act
when German's came over as criminals
Navigation Acts
series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies, which started in 1651. At their outset, they were a factor in the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Benjamin Franklin
printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists
Constitution
•fundamental law: law determining the fundamental political principles of a government