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| A march led by the Scots-Irish on Philadelphia in 1764 in protest of Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy towards Indians. |
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| A movement in North Carolina that was a small yet nasty fight against eastern domination of the colony's affairs. |
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| Triangle Trade -An infamously profitable trade route. A skipper would sail from a New England port with a cargo of rum to the Golden Coast of Africa.Here they would trade the rum for African slaves, and then proceed to the west Indies.There they would exchange the surviving slaves for molasses, which they would carry to New England to make rum. |
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| An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies. |
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| The idea that and individuals free will, not divine decree, determined a person's eternal fate. |
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| A religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s that swept through the colonies like wildfire. |
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| Orthodox clergymen who were deeply skeptical of the emotionalism and the theatrical antics of the revivalists of the Great Awakening. |
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| Clergymen who defended the Awakening for its role in revitalizing the American religion. |
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| A collection of many pithy saying taken from the thinkers of the ages, it dispensed advice for people of all ages, it emphasized virtues like thrift, industry, morality, and common sense. |
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| Newspaper had assailed the corrupt royal governor and he was charged with seditious libel and hauled into court where he was defended by former indentured servant Andrew Hamilton. He argued that he had printed the truth, and the jurors deemed him not guilty after being swayed by his eloquence. |
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| Upper-house, or council was appointed by the crown. |
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| Proprietor is chosen by voters in self-governing colonies. |
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