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Ch,#5
Ch.5 BN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apprentice | a beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an experienced master. |
| Great Awakening | a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s. |
| Jonathan Edwards | one of the best known preachers, terrified listeners with images of God's anger but promised they could be saved. |
| George Whitefield | drew thousands of people with people with his sermons and raised funds to start home for orphans |
| Enlightenment | an 18th century movement that emphasized the use of reason and scientific method to obtain knowledge. |
| Benjamin Franklin | a famous American Enlightenment figure |
| John Locke | argued that people had natural rights |
| Magna Carta | a document that guarenteed the important rights to noblemen and freemen-not bound to a master. their property could not be siexed by the King and couldn't be taxed unless a council prominent men agreed, or put to court without witness. |
| Parliament | England's chief lawmaking body |
| Edmund Andros | a governor of King James that ruled over the Dominion of New England (northern colonies and Massachusetts.) |
| 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 Parliament, including the rights to free election. |
| salutary neglect | a handoff policy of England towards its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s |
| John Peter Zenger | publisher of New-York Weekly Journal, stood trial for printing critism of New York's governor. |
| French and Indian War | a conflict in the North America from 1754 to 1763 that was part of a worldwide struggle btween French and English; Britain defeated France and gained French Canada. |
| Albany plan of union | the first formal proposal to unite the american colonies, put forth by Benjamin Franklin. |
| Battle of Quebec | a battle won by British over the French, and the turning point of the French and Indian war. |
| Treaty of Paris | the 1763 treaty that ended the French and Indian War; Britain gained all of North America east of the Mississippi river. |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | a revolt against British forts and American settlers in 1763, led in part by ottawa leader Pontiac, in response to settlers' claims Native American lands and to harsh treatment by British settlers. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | an order in which Britain prohited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mts. |
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