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vocab. ch.5 ss
all vocabulary for chapter 5 social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apprentice | a begginer who learns a trade or craft from an experienced master |
| Great Awakening | a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies durin the 1730s and 1740s |
| Jonathan Edwards | One of the most well known preachers during the Great Awakening who terrified them with God's anger but promised they could be saved |
| George Whitefield | Another preacher who drew thousands of people with his sermons and helped to raise funds for a home for orphans |
| Enlightenment | an 18th century movement that emphasized the use of reason and scientific method to obtain knowledge |
| Benjamin Franklin | A famous American enlightenment figure |
| John Locke | The English philosopher that arugued people had natural rights |
| Magna Carta | "Great Charter", a document that garunteed basic political rights in England, approved by King John in 1215 |
| Parliament | England's chief lawmaking body |
| Edmund Andros | Royal govenor of New England appointed by King James |
| Glorious Revolution | the overthrow English King James II in 1688 and his replacement by 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 elections |
| Salutary neglect | a hands-off policy of England toward its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s |
| John Peter Zenger | publisher of the "New York Weekly Journal" newspaper and was held trial for speaking out against the government through the press though he was not charged for his actions |
| French and Indian War | 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 |
| Albany Plan of 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 | the 1763 treaty that ended the Frencha dn 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 response to settlers' claims of Native American lands and to harsh treatment by British soldiers |
| Proclimation of 1763 | An order in which Britain forbid its American colonists from setteling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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