HIST 201 Chapter 5: Battling for Souls, Minds, and the Heart of North America
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Chapter 5: battling for souls, minds, and the heart of north america. American philosophical society: scholarly organization founded in philadelphia in 1743 to promote the dissemination of knowledge in the science and humanities. Gang system: involved the work of coordinated groups, supervised by a driver, to maintain an even level of productivity during the work day. The other division of labor: task system. Methodists: protestant evangelical sect, rooted in the 18th-century anglican revival movement. Moravians (united brethren): protestant religious sect, revived in germany in 1727, that sought to create closed, economically autonomous, sex-segregated communities in which. Christian liturgical rituals and piety infused daily life. Ohio company of virginia: group of land speculators composed mainly of well-connected. British planters that had 300,000 acres of land in virginia. Opened the door to british trade in the south, competing with the already established. Plantation act of 1740: british parliamentary act that allowed non-catholic aliens to become citizens.
