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ch.5 vocab
Question | Answer |
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a beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an experienced master | Apprentice |
a revival of religons feeling in the American Colonies during the 1730's and 1740's | Great Awakening |
one of the best known preachers terrified listeners with images of God's anger but promised they could be saved | Johnathan Edwards |
drew thousands of people with his sermons and raised funds to start a home for orphans | George Whitefield |
an 18th century movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge | Enlightenment |
famous American enlightenment figure. Intellectual movement appealy mostly wealthy education | Benjamin Franklin |
once argued that people have natural rights | John Locke |
"Great Charter" a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England Approved by King John in 1215 | Masna Carta |
England's chief lawmaking body | Parliament |
a royal governor | Edmund Andras |
the over throw of English King Jamesh in 1688 and his replacement by William and Mary | Glorians Revolution |
an agreement signed by William and Mary to respect the rights of English citizens and of Parliament, including the right to free elections | English Bill of Rights |
a hands-off policy of England toward its American colonies during the first half of the 1700's | Salutary neglect |
publisher of the New York Weekly Journal, stood trial for printing criticism of New York's governor | John Peter Zenser' |
a conflict in North America from 1754 to 1763 that was part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain, Britain defeated France and gained French Canada | French and Indian War |
the formal proposal to unite the American colonies, put forth by Benjamin | Albany Plan of Union |
a battle won by the British over the French, and the turning point in the French and Indian War | Battle of Quebec' |
the 1763 treaty that ended the French and Indian War; Britain gained all of the North America east of the Mississippi River | Treaty of Paris |
a revolt against British forts and American settlers in 1763, led in part by Ottawa were leader Pontiac, in vesponse to settlers claims of Native American lands and to harsh treatment by British solders | Pontiac's Rebellion |
an order in which Britain prohibited it's American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |