APUSH Unit 1

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.

• Phillis Wheatly
• John Peter
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Whitfield

Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights."

• Phillis Wheatly
• John Peter
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Whitfield

An African domestic in the colonies, and a well-known colonial poet. This person's poetry was ornate and elaborate.

• Phillis Wheatly
• John Peter
• Jonathan Edwards
• Bejamin Franklin

Part of the Great Awakening. Gave gripping sermons about sin and the torments of Hell.

• Phillis Wheatly
• Benjamin Franklin
• John Peters
• Jonathan Edwards

Who made decisions for the colonies and why?

• churches; financed the government
• Governor and legislature; lawmakers
• Wealthy withe men; they had all the power
• white women; they had all the power

Written by Benjamin Franklin, it was filled with witty, insightful, and funny bits of observation and common sense advice.

• Two treatises
• The newspaper 
• Poor Richards almanac 
• the bible

First public education legislation in America. It declared that towns with 50 or more families had to hire a schoolmaster and towns over 100 had to found a grammar school.

• Town meetings 
• Great awakening
•  The Enlightenment 
• Massachusetts School Law 

Sudden of religious fervor that swept through the colonies. 

• The Great awakening 
• Established churches
• John Peter Zenger Case
• The Enlightenment 

French Protestants that fled to other countries once they began to be persecuted.

• Quakers
• Huguenots
• Lutherans 
• Slaves 

Founded in 1636 by a grant from the Massachusetts general court. Followed puritan beliefs.

• Rutgers
• Yale
• Princeton
• Harvard