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Ch.5 vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an experienced master. | apprentice |
| a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s. | Great Awakening |
| was one of the best-known preachers, during the Great Awakening, scared listeners by telling them of God's anger, but also said they could be saved. | Jonathan Edwards |
| inspired by the Great Awakening, attracked people with his sermons and raised funds to make a home for orphans. | George Whitefield |
| an 18th-century movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge. | Enlightment |
| famous American Enlightenment figure, introduced the Albany Plan of Union. | Benjamin Franklin |
| an English philosopher that argued that people have natural rights such as life, liberty, and property. He challenged the concept that kings had a God-given right to rule. | John Locke |
| "Great Charter;" a document guarenteeing basic political rights in England, approved by King John in 1215. | Magna Carta |
| England's chief lawmaking body. | Parliament |
| was the royal governor of Massachusetts and the other Northern colonies. He angered the colonists by ending representative assemblies and keeping town meetings once a year. He was later stripped of power by a revolution. | Edmund Andros |
| the overthrow of English King James 2 in 1688 and his replacement by William and Mary. | "Glorious 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 1700s. | salutary neglect |
| was the publisher of New-York Weekly Journal and stood for trial for printing criticism of New York's governor. Hamilton said that people have the right to speak the truth, and he was released. | John Peter Zenger |
| 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 first formal proposal to unite the American colonies, put forth by Benjamin Franklin. | 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; Britian gained all of 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 war leader Pontiac, in respnse to settlers' claims of Native American lands and to harsh treatment by British soldiers. | Pontiac's Rebellion |
| an order in which Britian prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. | Proclamation of 1763 |
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