Chapter Six: A New Nation

Chapter Five: The American Revolution

 At the age of seventeen, this individual ran away, eventually ending up in Quaker Philadelphia. There he began publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette in the late 1720s, and in 1732 he started his annual publication Poor Richard: An Almanack, in which he gave readers much practical advice, such as “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”  

Who argued that government was a form of contract between the leaders and the people, and that representative government existed to protect “life, liberty and property?”  

What stimulated Parliament’s independence from the monarchy and protected certain of Parliament’s rights, such as the right to freedom of speech, the right to regular elections, the right to petition the king, trial by jury and habeas corpus (the requirement that authorities bring an imprisoned person before a court to demonstrate the cause of the imprisonment)?

Which colony was created in 1681 when Charles II bestowed the largest proprietary colony in the Americas on William Penn to settle the large debt he owed the Penn family?

In Northampton, Massachusetts, which of the following led still another explosion of evangelical fervor, involving using vivid depictions of the terrors of hell, his best-known sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” perfectly exemplifies this terrifying approach?  

Which of the following countries became a global power following the French and Indian War?  

What was it called when customs officials were empowered with warrants to board and search vessels suspected of containing smuggled goods?  

____________ included all the New England colonies (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island) and in 1688 was enlarged by the addition of New York and New Jersey.