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Chapter 5 Vocab
Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Apprentice | A beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an experienced master. |
| Great Awakening | A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s. |
| Jonathan Edwards | Jonathan Edwards was a Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals. |
| Enlightment | An 18th Century movement and emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge. |
| John Locke | John Locke FRS, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism". |
| Magna Carta | "Great Charter;" A document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved by King John by 1215. |
| Parliament | The legislature of certain British colonies and possessions. |
| Edmund Andros | Sir Edmund Andros was an English colonial administrator in North America. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. |
| Glorious Revolution | The Glorious Revolution was the last genuine revolution in Britain. Because there was little armed resistance in England to William and Mary, the revolution is also called the Bloodless Revolution. |
| English Bill of Rights | is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689 |
| Salutary Neglect | Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to an unofficial and long-lasting 17th- & 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England. |
| John Peter Zenger | John Peter Zenger was a German American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. Zenger printed The New York Weekly Journal. He was a defendant in a landmark legal case in American jurisprudence, known as The Zenger Trial. |
| French and Indian War | Was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. |
| Albany plan of union | The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 48) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress in July 1754 in Albany, New York. |
| Battle of Quebec | The Battle of Quebec (French: Bataille de Québec) was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. |
| Treaty of Paris | The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America. |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | Pontiac's War, Pontiac's Conspiracy, or Pontiac's Rebellion was a war that was launched in 1763 |
| Proclamation of 1763 | The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 9, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. |
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