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SocialSstudies vocab
Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apprentice | A beginner who learns a trade or craft from a experienced master. |
| Great awakening | A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730's and 1740's |
| Jonathan Edwards | He was one of the best known preachers, terrified people with images of gods anger, but said they could be saved. |
| Enlightenment | An 18th century movement that emphasised the use of reason and scientific method to obtain knowledge |
| Benjamin Franklin | A famous American Enlightenment figure, also a famous inventor. |
| John Locke | He argued that people have natural rights, Agreed with the Enlightenment. |
| Magna Carta | "Great Charter" a document guaranteeing basic political rights to England, approved by King John in 1215. But the noble forced him to sign it. |
| George Whitefield | He drew thousands of people with his sermons and he raised money to start a orphanage |
| Parliament | England chief lawmaking body. |
| Edmund Andros | He was a royal Governor ruling a combination of the New England and Massachusetts. |
| Glorious Revolution | The overthrow of English King James II in 1688 and his replacement by William and Mary. |
| English Bill of Rights | Ab agreement signed by William and Mary to respect the rights of the english citizens and of parliament, including to right to free elections. |
| Salutary neglect | A hands off policy of England toward its American colonies during the first half of the 1700's |
| John Peter Zenger | He was the publisher of the New-York weekly Journal, he stood trial for printing criticism of the New York Governor |
| French and Indian War | A conflict in North America from 1754- 1763 that was part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain, Britain won and gained Canada |
| Albany Plan of Union | The 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 | In 1763 the treaty that ended the French and Indian war, Britain gained all of North America east of the Mississippi River |
| Pontiacs Rebellion | A revolt against British Forts and American settlers in 1763, led in part by Ottawa war leader Pontiac |
| Proclamation of 1763 | An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonist from settling west in the Appalachian Mts. |
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