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Chapter 5 Vocab Link
Chapter 5 vocabulary for Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apprentice | a person who learns trade from craftsmen and gets housing and food until they can open their own business. |
| Great Awakening | religious movement that changed the colonial culture and lasted for years |
| Jonathan Edwards | one of the best known preachers that terrified listeners with images of God |
| George Whitefield | drew thousands of people to his sermons to raise money |
| Enlightenment | emphasized reason and science as paths of knowledge |
| Benjamin Franklin | a famous American enlightenment figure |
| John Locke | English philosopher who argued the people have natural rights |
| Magna Carta | documents that guaranteed important rights to noblemen and freemen |
| Parliament | England's chief law making body and colonists' model for representative government |
| Edmund Andros | royal governor of the Dominion of New England, the northern colonies combined |
| Glorious Revolution | change in England's leadership from James to William and Mary |
| English Bill of Rights | agreement to respect the rights of English citizens and of Parliament |
| salutary neglect | period of time when England did not interfere with the colonies' affairs |
| John Peter Zenger | publisher of the New York weekly Journal, that stood trail for publishing criticism against New York's governor |
| French and Indian War | the final war that decided which nation would control Northern and Eastern North America |
| Albany Plan of Union | first formal proposal to unite the colonies written by Benjamin Franklin |
| Battle of Quebec | turning point to the war which British won - pivotal |
| Treaty of Paris | British claimed all of the land in North America east of the Mississippi River |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | when Indians attacked British in the Native American's land and old French forts |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians to protect from Indians |