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Chapter 5
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History
11th Grade
07/26/2016

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Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur
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French-American writer born in Caen, Normandy, France.
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John Peter Zenger
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A german American printer and journalist in Ny city. He printed the New York Weekly Journal.
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Triangular Trade
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System of trading in which a country pays for its imports for one country by its exports to another
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Molasses Act
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Act of parliament of Great Britain which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies.
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Great awakening
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Represents instances of religious revival in American religious history. Which in turn increased religious enthusiasm generally.
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New Lights vs Old Lights
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The preachers adopting the highly effective new style, called "new lights" and the old-fashioned preachers were "old lights".
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Poor Richard's Almanack
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Published by Benjamin Franklin, it contained a lot of information in this book such as weather, tides, medicinal remedies and sayings.
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Zenger trial
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The writer was taken into custody and put on trial because of producing newspaper and making his own shop for printing & production
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