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Date Posted: 12:07:28 04/04/01 Wed
Author: lynette
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1700-1763

NE=New England, WI=West Indies, GA=Great Awakening, NA=North Americans

Treaty of Utrecht - 1713. Peace terms after French and Spanish were beaten. Rewarded Britain with Arcadia (Nova Scotia), Newfoundland, Hudson Bay.

Yale - Founded in 1701 in New Haven, CT. Congregational denomination, 3rd college founded in the United States.

Triangular Trade - Sea route from NE to West Africa with rum, from Africa to WI with slaves, and from WI to America with sugar & molasses.

Mercantilism - Idea that the colonies' sole purpose was to provide for the mother country. Bitterly resented by British colonists in America.

Georgia - Royal colony founded in 1733 by group of philanthropists with the purpose of acting as a buffer between the Spanish in Florida and the French in Louisiana.

Oglethorpe - One of the philanthropists who founded GA. Defended Georgia against Spanish (fought them to a standstill) in the War of Jenkin's Ear in 1739.

Jonathan Edwards - Intellectual pastor and theologist from MASS. Started the GA of the 1730's and 40's. "Folly of believing in salvation through God's works", people must depend on God's grace.

Revivalism - Idea of the GA that revived the failing religions in America.

George Whitefield - English minister who adopted Edwards's ideas and introduced evangelism during the GA. New light.

Great Awakening - Religious revival of the 1730's and 40's that swpet up America and united Americans as a country for the 1st time ever.

John Peter Zenger - Newspaper printer who was charged with seditious libel about the governor. Defended by Andrew Hamilton in the 1734-35 case and argued that what was printed was the truth. Epochal case that pointed the way to freedom of expression in America.

War of Jenkin's Ear - 1739 war between England and Spain. Started in America when Spanish cut off Cpt Jenkin's ear. Confined to the Caribbean Sea and Georgia that merged of Austrian Succession in Europe.

Old Lights - Preachers who held with the old style of preaching and theological reasoning. Not relying on emotion.

New Lights - Revivalists and evangelists who reverted to Edwards's beliefs during the GA.

French and Indian War - Also referred to as the Seven Years' War and the Seven Seas' War from 1756-1763. Began in America between the colonists and French trappers. England & Prussia supported Americans vs. France, Spain, Austria, Russia. France lost only because they couldn't concentrate in wars in Europe and America.

War of the Austrian Succession - France and Spain vs. Britain. Peace treaty in 1748 after eight years of war. Also called "King George's War" that occurred in 1744-1748.

Treaty of Paris - 1763. Kept the French off North America permanently although minorities remained in Canada. France was allowed to keep sugar islands in WI and 2 fishing stations in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. They ceded the trans-MS and LA & outlet of New Orleans to Spain. Spain gave FL for Cuba to England. Made Britian dominant in North America and the leading naval power of the world.

Mason-Dixon Line - Originally the southern boundary of colonial PA. Later became the division between the North and South during the Civil War.

Paxton Boys - Scotch-Irish rebels who marched on Philadelphia in 1764 to protest Quaker leniency toward the NA's.

Proclamation Line of 1763 - Britain prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Purpose was to work out the NA problem fairly and prevent another Pontiac's uprising.

Pontiac's Rebellion - Postwar flare-up against the whites in Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes region in 1763 that wiped out many British posts. The British retaliated by distributing blankets infected with smallpox among the NA's.

Princeton - Originally the College of New Jersey and of Presbyterian denomination in 1746.

Molasses Act - 1733 British act passed to stop the North American trade with the French WI. No effect because the Americans simply smuggled and bribed their way around the law.

Admiralty Courts - Courts formed by Britain and present in America where there was no jury, only a magistrate on whose shoulders the decision rested. Offenders of the Stamp and Sugar Acts were to be tried in these which the Americans were not happy about at all.

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