Chapter 5 Quiz Periods 4 and 5

C. Identification

Supply the correct identification for each numbered description.

1. __________ Corruption of a German word used as a term for German immigrants in

Pennsylvania

2. __________ Ethnic group that had already relocated once before immigrating to America

and settling largely on the western frontier of the middle and southern colonies

3. __________ Rebellious movement of North Carolina frontiersmen against eastern

domination that included future President Andrew Jackson

4. __________ Popular term for convicted criminals dumped on colonies by British authorities

5. __________ Dread disease that afflicted one out of every five colonial Americans, including

George Washington

6. __________ Lucrative profession, especially prevalent in New England, that marketed its

product to the Catholic nations of southern Europe

7. __________ Small but profitable trade route that linked New England, Africa, and the West

Indies

8. __________ Popular colonial centers of recreation, gossip, and political debate

9. __________ Term for tax-supported condition of Congregational and Anglican churches,

but not of Baptists, Quakers, and Roman Catholics

10. __________ Spectacular, emotional religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s

11. __________ Ministers who supported the Great Awakening against the old light clergy who

rejected it

12. __________ Followers of a Dutch theologian who challenged traditional Calvinist doctrine

by arguing for free will and the dispensation of divine grace beyond a few elect

13. __________ The case that established the precedent that true statements about public

officials could not be prosecuted as libel

14. __________ The first American college not to be sponsored by a religious denomination,

strongly supported by Benjamin Franklin

15. __________ Benjamin Franklin‟s highly popular collection of information, parables, and

advice

D. Matching People, Places, and Events

Match the person, place, or event in the left column with the proper description in the right column by

inserting the correct letter on the blank line.

1. ___ Philadelphia

2. ___ African Americans

3. ___ Scots-Irish

4. ___ Paxton Boys and Regulators

5. ___ Patrick Henry

6. ___ Molasses Act

7. ___ Anglican church

8. ___ Jonathan Edwards

9. ___ George Whitefield

10. ___ Phillis Wheatley

11. ___ Benjamin Franklin

12. ___ John Peter Zenger

13. ___ Quakers

14. ___ Baptists

15. ___ John Singleton Copley

a. Itinerant British evangelist who spread

the Great Awakening throughout the

colonies

b. Colonial printer whose case helped

begin freedom of the press

c. Colonial painter who studied and

worked in Britain

d. Leading city of the colonies; home of

Benjamin Franklin

e. Largest non-English group in the

colonies

f. Dominant religious group in colonial

Pennsylvania, criticized by others for

their attitudes toward Indians

g. Former slave who became a poet at an

early age

h. Scots-Irish frontiersmen who protested

against colonial elites of Pennsylvania

and North Carolina

i. Attempt by British authorities to

squelch colonial trade with French

West Indies

j. Brilliant New England theologian who

instigated the Great Awakening

k. Group that settled the frontier, made

whiskey, and hated the British and

other governmental authorities

l. Nonestablished religious group that

benefited from the Great Awakening

m. Author, scientist, printer; “the first

civilized American”

n. Eloquent lawyer-orator who argued in

defense of colonial rights

o. Established religion in southern

colonies and New York; weakened by

lackadaisical clergy and too-close ties

with British crown