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ch.5 vocabhm
ch. 5 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 1730's and 1740's |
| Jonathan Edwards | one of the best known preachers, scared listeners with images of God's anger but promised they could be saved |
| George Whitfield | 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 | famous enlightenment speaker,explained lightning was a form of electrcity, and helped write the Declaration of Independence |
| John Locke | english philosopher argued that people have natural rights, challenged belief that kings had a god-given right to rule. |
| Magna Carta | "Great Charter" a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England , approved by King John in 1215 |
| Parliament | england's cheif lawmaking body |
| Edmund Andros | ruled Dominion of New England, angered colonists by ending their representative assemblies and allowing town meetings to be held only once a year. |
| Glorious Revolution | the overthrow of english King James II 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 to Parliament, including the 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 | published New York Weekly(1735) stood trial for printing criticism of New york's governor, eventually released from captivity. |
| French and Indian War | a conflict in North America from 1754 to 1763 that was part of a world-wide struggle between France and 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 that ended the French and Indian war; Britain gained all of North America east of the Mississppi River |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | a revolt against British forts and American settlers in 1763, led in part by Ottowa war leader Pontiac, in response to setters' claims of North 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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