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Chapter 5 Vocab S.S.
Beginnings an American Identity
Question | Answer |
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learned a trade from an experienced craftsman | apprentice |
1730s and 1740s a religious movement swept through the colonies | 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 |
emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge | Enlightenment |
a famous American Enlightenment figure | Benjamin Franklin |
English philosopher; argued that people have natural rights | John Locke |
a group of English noblemen forced King John | Magna Carta |
England's chief lawmaking body | Parliament |
royal governor that ruled Dominion of New England | Edmund Andros |
a change in leadership; overthrew King James and replaced him with William and Mary | Glorious Revolution |
an agreement to respect the rights of English citizens and of Parliament; William and Mary agreed in 1689 | English Bill of Rights |
"hands off" policy | salutary neglect |
publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal, stood trial for printing criticism of New York's governor | John Peter Zenger |
a final war; decided which nation would control the northern and eastern parts of North America | The French and Indian War |
first formal proposal to unite the colonies | Albany Plan of Union |
turning point of the war; British attacked Quebec and won | The Battle of Quebec |
Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi River; ended French power | Treaty of Paris |
Native Americans groups responded by attacked British settlers and destroying forts due to British settlers not giving them supplies and they are on their land | Pontiac's Rebellion |
British issued it; forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |