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ch.5 vocab
Term | Definition |
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apprentice | A beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an experienced master |
Great awakening | A revival of religious feelings in the American colonies during the 1730's and 1740's |
Jonathan Edwards | one of the best known preachers terrified listener with images of god's anger but promised they could be saved |
George Whitefield | Raised funds to start a home for orphans |
enlightenment | 18th Century movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge |
Benjamin Franklin | A famous americanen enlightenment figure |
john Locke | English Philosopher |
Magna Carta | A document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved by king john |
parliament | England's chief lawmaking body |
Edmund Andros | Royal governor |
glorious revolution | The overthrow of English king James II in 1688 and his replacement by William and Mary |
English bill of rights | an agreement signed by William and Mary to respect the rights of English citizens and of parliament, including the right to free elections. |
salutary neglect | a hands-off policy of England towards its American colonies during the first half of the 1700's |
john peter Zenger | A journalist that put a complaint in newspaper, criticize the government in print |
French and Indian War | a Conflict in North America from 1754 to 1763 that was part of worldwide struggle between France and Britain |
Albany plan of union | the first formal proposal to unite the American colonies |
Battle of Quebec | A battle won by the British over the French |
Pontiac's Rebellion | revolt against British forts and American settlers in 1763 |
proclamation of 1763 | An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mts. |