Leading Up To The American Revolution

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The Enlightenment

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"The Age of Reason" or also known as the period in the history of western thought and culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century.

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The Great Awakening

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Was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American Colonies in the 1730's and 1740's, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.

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Jonathan Edwards

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a Protestant preacher, philosopher, and theologian. "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals.

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George Whitefield

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an Englush Angelican Cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and, especially, in the American colonies.

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John Peter Zenger

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a German American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. Zenger printed the New York Weekly Journal. He was a defendant in a landmark legal case in American jurisprudence, known as the Zenger trial.

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William Cosby

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a royal governor of New York, he was accused of being a jerk and took John Peter Zenger to trial for publishing such words about him.

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Libel

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a published statement where the reputation of one is damaged.

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Mercantilism

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the belief of profitable trading; commercialism

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Salutary Neglect

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Britains policy, initiated by Robert Walpole, to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.