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History-5
Ch. 5 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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apprentice | a beginner who learns a trade ot a craft from an experienced master. |
Great Awakening | religious awakening. |
Jonathon Edwards | one of the best-known preachers, terrified listeners with images of God's anger but promised they would be saved. |
George Whitefield | drew thousands of people with his sermons and raised funds to start a home for orphans. |
Enlightenment | emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge. |
Benjamin Franklin | was a famous American Enlightenment figure. |
John Locke | argued that people have natural rights. |
Magna Carta | a document guarenteeing basic political rights in England approved by King James in 1215. |
Parliament | England's cheif lawmaking body. |
Edmund Andros | governor of New England. |
Glorious Revolution | the overthrow of English King James 2 in 1688 and his replacement was William and Mary. |
English Bill of Rights | an agreement signed by William and Mary to respect rights of English citizens and of Parliament, including the right to free election. |
salutary neglect | a hands-off policy of England toward it American colonies during the first half of the 1700s. |
French and Indian War | a conflict in North America form 1754 to 1763 that was part of a world wide struggle between France and Britain; Britain defeated France and gained French Canada. |
John Peter Zenger | critized the New York government on a New York'Weekly Magazine. |
Albany Plan of the Union | the first formal proposal to unite the American colonies, put forth by Benjamin Franklin. |
Battle of Quebec | a battle won by the British over the French, and the turning point in the French and Indian War. |
Treaty of Paris 1763 | 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 War leader, Pontiac, in responsible to settlers clains to Native American lands and to harsh treatment by British soldiers. |
Proclamation of 1763 | an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountians. |