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Chapter 5 vocab
us history
Term | Definition |
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Apprentice | Someone who leaned a trade from an experienced craftsman. |
Great Awakening | A religeous moment in time, taken place, from around the 1730s to the 1740s. |
Jonathan Edwards | A man who preached at churches telling people that there was still hope for everybody. |
George Whitefield | Was a loud speaker and scared people into being good people, and gained money for an entire orphanage. |
Enlightenment | A way of letting stress and anxiety fade away, and start to let whomever calm down. |
Benjamin Franklin | A man of science, who invented the lightning rod, benjamin stove, and the bifocals. |
John Locke | A man of faith who received his own beliefs that people had natural rights like life, liberty, and property. |
Magna Carta | A document that garenteed important rights to noble/free men. |
Parliament | England's chief lawmaking body. |
Edmond Andros | The royal governor of the Doninion of New England. |
Glorius Revolution | The change of leadership when King James fled. |
English Bill of Rights | An agreement to respect the England's people's rights. |
Salutary Neglect | When England slowly stopped helping the colonies. |
John Peter Zenger | The publisher of the ' NEW YORK WEEKLY JOURNAL' |
French and Indian War | 1754-1763: A war fought over territory. |
Albany plan of Union | The first formal proposal to unite the colonies. |
Battle of Quebec | The turning point of the French and Indian war. |
Treaty of Paris | The treaty stating that Britain was given all North America East of the Mississippi River. |
Pontiacs Rebellion | When Native Americans attacked Forts. |
Proclamation of 1763 | A document that forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. |