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Chapter 5 Vocabulary
US History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| apprentice | learned a trade from an experienced craftsman |
| Great Awakening | a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s |
| Jonathon Edwards | one of the best-known preachers, he terrified listeners with images of God's 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 | an 18th-century movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge |
| Benjamin Franklin | a famous American Enlightenment figure |
| John Locke | an English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights; life, liberty, and property |
| Magna Carta | "Great Charter", a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved by King John in 1215 |
| Parliament | England's chief lawmaking body |
| Edmund Andros | royal governor of Massachusetts and the other Northern colonies into one Dominion of New England; he was hated by everyone |
| Glorious Revolution | the overthrow of English King James 2nd in 1688 and his replacement by William and Mary |
| English Bill of Rights | an agreement signed by William and Mary to respect the rights of English citizens and of Parliament, including the right to free elections |
| salutary neglect | a hands-off policy of England towards its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s |
| John Peter Zenger | publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal, stood trial for printing criticism of New York's governor |
| 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 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 response to settlers' claims of 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 Mountains |
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