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Ch.5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| one of the best known preachers, terrified listeners with images of God’s anger but promised they could be saved | Jonathan 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 |
| a famous American Enlightenment figure | Benjamin Franklin |
| English philosopher, argued that people have natural rights, rights to life, liberty, and property | John Locke |
| “great character”, a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved by King John in 1215 | Magna Carta |
| England’s chief lawmaking body | Parliament |
| royal governor of New England, angered colonist by ending their representative assemblies and allowing town meetings to be held only once a year, jailed loudest complainers | Edmund Andros |
| the overthrow of English King James II 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 towards its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s | Salutary Neglect |
| publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal , stood trial for printing criticism of the New York’s governor, defended by Andrew Hamilton in trial who claimed that people had the right to speak the truth, the jury agreed and released Zenger | John Peter Zenger |
| a conflict in North America from 1754-1763 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; British gained all of North America east of the Mississippi River | Treaty of Parris |
| a revolt against British forts and American settlers in 1763, led in part by Ottawa war leader Pontiac, in response to settlers’ claims of Native American lands and to harsh treatment by British soldiers | Pontiac’s Rebellion |
| an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |
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