Question | Answer |
Learned a trade from an experienced craftsman. | apprentice |
In the 1730s and 1740s, a religious movement swept through the colonies. | Great Awakening |
He was one of the best-known preachers, terrified listeners with images of God's anger but promised they could be saved. | Jonathan Edwards |
He 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 |
He was a famous American Enlightenment figure. | Benjamin Franklin |
An English philosopher that argued that people have natural rights. | John Locke |
A group of English noblemen forced King John to accept the Great Charter known as... | Magna Carta |
England's chief lawmaking body,was the colonists' model for representative government. | Parliament |
King James combined Massachuesettes and the New England, ruled by royal govenor... | Edmund Andros |
When Parliament named William and Mary the new monarchs of England.This change in leadership was called... | Glorious Revolution |
This was an agreement to respect the rights of English citizens and of Parliament.. | English Bill of Rights |
During the first half of the 1700s,England interfered very little in the colonial affairs called... | salutary neglect |
Publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal,stood for trial for printing criticism of New York's govenor. | John Peter Zenger |
This final war decided which nation would control the northern and eastern parts of North America. | French and Indian War |
This was the first formal proposal to unite the colonies. | Albany Plan of Union |
This was the turning point of the war, when Quebec surrendered to the British. | Battle of Quebec |
By this document, Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi River. | Treaty of Paris |
In 1763, Native American groups responded by attacking settlers and destroying almost every British fort west of the Appalachians | Pontiac's Rebellion |
This forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians. | Proclamation of 1763 |