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Chapter 5 Vocab E.L.
Question | Answer |
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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 |
Jonathan Edwards | |
George Whitefield | |
an 18th century movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge | Enlightenment |
Benjamin Franklin | |
John Locke | |
"Great Charter"; a document guaranteeing basic poitical rights in England, approved by King John in 1215 | Magna Carta |
England's chief lawmaking body | Parliament |
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 toward its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s | salutary neglect |
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; Britain 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 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 colonists from settling west of the Appalachians | Proclamation of 1763 |