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vocab 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an apprentice? | He learned trade from an experienced craftsman. |
| Great Awakening | In the 1730s and 1740s a religious movement swept throug the colonies. |
| Jonathan Edwards | One of the best known preachers, terrified listeners with images of Gods anger but promised they could be saved. |
| George Whitefield | Drew thousands of people with his sermons and raised funds to start a home for orphans. |
| Enlightenment | Emphasized reasoon and science as the path to knowlage. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Was a famous American Enlightenment figure. |
| John Locke | Argued that people have natural rights- rights to life, liberty, and property. |
| Magna Carta | A document that guarnteed important rights to noblemen and freedom- thoes not bound to a master. |
| Parliment | Englands chief lawmaking body, was the colonists model for representative government. |
| Edmund Andros | Andros angered the colonists by ending their representarive assemblies and allowing town meetings to be held only once a year. |
| Glorious Revolution | Parliment named William and Mary the new monarchs of England. |
| English bill of rights | This was an agreement to repect the rights of English citizens and of Parliament. |
| Saultary neglect | Parliment passed many laws regulating trade, the use of money, an even apprenticeship in the colonies. |
| John Peter Zenger | Publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal, stood trial for printing criticism of New Yorks governor. |
| French and Indian war | 1754-1763, decided which nation would control the northern and eastern parts of North America. |
| Albany Plan of Union | Was the first formal proposal to unite te colonies. |
| Battle of Quebec | Was the turning point of the war. |
| Treaty of Paris | Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi River. |
| Potiac's Rebellion | In the spring and summer of 1763, Native American groups responded by attacking settlers and destroying almost every British fort west of the Applachians. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Forbade colonists to settle west of the Applachians. |