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Chapter four

Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America

The Scott- Irish arrived in great numbers throughout the eighteenth century. Germans comprised the second largest group of non-English settlers, arriving from the upper Rhine Valley. They most settled in the Middle Colonies. Native Americans migrated to the western backcountry and joined existing confederacies of Indian Tribes. Most American cities were intermediary trading ports where  the latest in European ideas and stlyes were successfully integrated. The Great Awakening brought with it a profound infussion of evangelical exhortation and revival spirit. Colonial Assembelies were often aggresive power, as they fought to protect the rights of the American colonies.

Backcountry-
a region streching approxmatley eight hundred miles from western Pennsylvania to Georgia.
Enlightenment-
Philosophical and itellectual movement that beagn in Europe during the eighteenth century.
Great Awakening-
Had a profound impact on the lives of ordinary people.
Itinerant preachers-
Traveling revivalist ministers of the Great Awakening.
Albany Plan-
Plan of intercolonial cooperation proposed by prominent colonists including Benjamin Franklin at a conference in Albany, New York, in 1754.

Seven Year's War-

Worldwide conflict that pitted Britain against France for control of North America.

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