Terms for Chapter 3: Colonial Society in the 18th Century

Crevecoeur
Demographics of 1775 Colonial America
English cultural dominance
Pennsylvania Dutch
Scotch-Irish
Backcountry
Great Wagon Road
Regulator Movement
Africans
Pluralism
Self-government
Religious toleration
Hereditary Aristocracy
Social mobility
Colonial families in VA vs. MASS
Colonial men
Colonial women
Subsistence farming
Yeoman farmers
Protestant work ethic
Breadbasket
Plantations
Leading industries
Hard money
Transportation
Cities
Taverns
Established Church
Congregational Church
Great Awakening (1730s-1740s)
Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
George Whitefield
Revival meetings
Old Lights v. New Lights
Schisms
Itinerant preachers
Georgian Style
Trumbull, Peale, Copley, West
Ben Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Cotton Mather
Salem Witch Trials
Phillis Wheatley
Enlightenment
Education
New England Primer
Tax-supported schools
Harvard College
Physicians
Lawyers
Artisans
Zenger Case
Rural Folkways
National Culture
Royal Governors
Colonial assemblies
Town Meetings
Limited Democracy