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Ch.5 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Someone who learned a trade from an experienced craftsman, usually a young boy. | apprentice |
A religious movement in the 1730's to 1740's when ministers preached for greater religious emotion. | Great Awakening |
A preacher in the Great Awakening who preached about God's anger to convert people. | Jonathan Edwards |
A preacher in the Great Awakening who preached and raised funds for an orphanage. | George Whitefield |
A period of time when people used reason and science for knowledge instead of religion-this took place at 1760's-1800. | Enlightenment |
A famous Enlightenment man who invented many useful products and proved lightning is electricity. | Benjamin Franklin |
An English philosopher who stated that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property. | John Locke |
An English document, accepted by King John in 1215, that guaranteed rights to noblemen and freemen. | Magna Carta |
England's chief lawmaking body with 2 houses - one representative and one noble - the was a model for the 13 colonies' representative governments. | Parliament |
The governor of the temporary Dominion of New England who was detested and, in 1688, jailed. | Edmund Andros |
A change in leadership of England in 1688 when William and Mary replaced King James. | Glorious Revolution |
An agreement accepted by William and Mary in 1689 that protected Parliamentary and English rights. | English Bill of Rights |
A process that took place in the early 1700's when royal governors rarely enforced laws, allowing colonists to be independent. | salutary neglect |
A publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal in 1735 accused of criticizing the New York governor, but he was released since he told the truth. | John Peter Zenger |
A war between the French and the English from 1754-1763 won by the English. Both sides were supported by Indians. | French and Indian War |
A proposal to unite the 13 colonies with a Grand Council formed by Ben. Franklin that was denied. | Albany Plan of Union |
A battle at Quebec in 1759 that was a British victory and a turning point in the war. | Battle of Quebec |
The treaty for the Seven Years War in 1763 as a Brit. victory and Britain claimed all land east of the Miss. River, Spain received all land west. | Treaty of Paris(1763) |
A struggle in 1763 when Indians attacked Brit. forts west of the App. Mts. and ended as a Brit. victory. | Pontiac's Rebellion |
A proclamation stating that colonists could not settle west of the App. Mts., as that land was costly to defend. This was protested by the colonists. | Proclamation of 1763 |