Activity in which many colonial merchant princes made fortunes that aroused fears of "Europeanization"?

Question

A once-dreaded profession that rose in prestige after 1750 because its practioners defended colonial rights?

Term for tax-supported condition of Congregational and Anglican churches, but not baptists, Quakers, and Roman Catholics?

Answer 1

printing currency (though they called them "bills of credit"

lending at interest

state church