Chapter 3 Section 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Benjamin Franklin | Printer, author, inventor, diplomat, statesman, and Founding Father. One of the few Americans who was highly respected in Europe, primarily due to his discoveries in the field of electricity. |
| Population Growth | Was growing very fast because people flooding in and birth rate was high. |
| Women in Colonial Society | Men had greater importance then women Own property and manage things. Men couldn't sell property without wife signing it. |
| Health and Disease | Improvements in Housing and Sanitation helped Small pox was bad disease |
| Cotton Mather | Puritan leader, had read that theTurks had successfully developed an inoculation for smallpox. |
| Immigrants in Colonial America | Lots of imigrantion german and africans made up a good part of it. |
| Pennsylvania Dutch | Great Farmers, 1/3 of all people were german brought the idea of the Conestoga wagon with them |
| Scotch-Irish Head West | 150,000 scotch-Irish came to USA/ Unable to buy land got land in the west/ most went to Pennsylvania |
| Colonial America's Jewish People | 1,500 jews came/ Lot went to New Amsterdam/ Mostly artisans and merchants |
| Africans in Colonial America | triedto maintain their specific languages and traditions/ In south Carolina they had the langage called Gullah/ Major changes/ Family names passed on |
| Oppression and Resistance | slit noses oramputate fingers and toes as punishment/ 5 white to 100 black/ promise things |
| Africans how they Rebelled | Someused passive resistance; that is, they wouldstage deliberate work slowdowns, lose orbreak tools, or simply refuse to work hard.A few even managed to gain freedom byescaping. |
| Enlightenment | challenged the authority of the church in science andphilosophy while elevating the power of human reason |
| Great Awakening | Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established. |
| rationalism | the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct |
| John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704) |
| Baron Montesquieu | believed that government should run on separation of powers, checks and balances |
| pietism | which stressed an individual's piety (devoutness) and an emotional union with God. |
| revivals | large publicmeetings for preaching and prayer. |
| Jonathan Edwards | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Come on you know this one) |
| George Whitefield | Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights." |
| Methodists | a Protestant denomination (That had a big increase in membership) |
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