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Chapter 5 Vocabulary
Chapter 5 Vocab. EL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an experienced master. | Apprentice |
| A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s. | Great Awakening |
| One of the best known preachers during the Great Awakening, he terrified listeners with images of God's anger but promised they could be saved. | Jonathan Edwards |
| He drew thousands of people with his sermons and raised funds to start a home for orphans. | George Whitefield |
| An 18th-century movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge. | Enlightenment |
| A famous American Enlightenment figure, he used reason to improve society. | Benjamin Franklin |
| English philosopher who argued that people had natural rights and that governments were created to protect those rights. If a government failed in this duty, people had a right to change it. He challenged the belief that kings had a God-given right to rul | John Locke |
| "Great Charter;" a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved by King John in 1215. | Magna Carta |
| England's chief lawmaking body. | Parliament |
| A royal governor appointed by King James II to rule the Dominion of New England (Massachusetts and other northern colonies combined) in the 1680s. He angered the colonists by ending representative assemblies and jailing those who opposed his policies. | Edmund Andros |
| The overthrow of English King James II in 1688 and his replacement by William and Mary. | Glorious Revolution |
| An agreement signed by William and Mary to respect the rights of English citizens and Parliament, including the right to free elections. | English Bill of Rights |
| A hands-off policy of England toward its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s. | Salutary Neglect |
| The publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal who stood trial in 1735 after criticizing the government in print. Freedom of the press was gained as a result. | John Peter Zenger |
| 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. | French and Indian War |
| The first formal proposal to unite the colonies , put forth by Benjamin Franklin. | Albany Plan of Union |
| A battle won by the British over the French, and the turning point in the French and Indian War. | Battle of Quebec |
| The 1763 treaty that ended the French and Indian War; Britain gained all of North America east of the Mississippi River. | Treaty of Paris |
| A revolt against British forts and American settlers in 1763, led in part by Ottawa war leader Pontiac, in response to the settlers' claims of Native American lands and to harsh treatment by British soldiers. | Pontiac's Rebellion |
| An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. | Proclamation of 1763 |
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