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Pennsylvania Dutch |
Known as large numbers of German speaking protestants. They were called this because people coundn't pronounce the word Deutsch, which means German. |
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Lord Baltimore |
Appointed a governor and a counial adviser that gave colonists a role in government by creating an elected assembly. |
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Mercantilism |
theory that a nation's economic strength came from keeping a strict control over its colonial trade. |
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Enlightenment |
European thinkers of the late 1600s and 1700s believed that reason and scientific methods could be applied to the study of society. |
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George Whitefield |
English minister who drew huge crowds to outdoor meeting. He was an enthisoastic and energetic preacher, his voice ring with feeling as he called a sinners to repent. |
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John Peter Zenger |
Was arrested for publishing stories that criticized the governor. Was put on trail for libel and jury agreed he hadn't committed libel. |
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