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Chapter 5 US history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apprentice | a beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an expirienced master |
| Great Awakening | a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1730s |
| Jonathan Edwards | one of the best known preachers during the Great Awakening and frightened many with 'images' of God's anger but promised of salvation |
| George Whitefield | Another preacher during the great awakening and raised funds for orphans in order to give them a home |
| Enlightenment | an 18th century movement that emphasized the use of reason and scientific method to obtain knowledge |
| Benjamin Franklin | a famous American enlightenment figure |
| John Locke | an english philosopher who argued that people have natural rights |
| Magna Carta | "great charter" a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved bu King John in 1215 |
| Parliament | England's chief lawmaking body |
| Edmund Andros | the royal governor of the dominion of new england |
| Glorious Revolution | the overthrow of English King James 2 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 and of Parliament, including the right to free elections |
| salutary neglect | a handsoff policy of England toward its American Colonies during the first half of the 1700s |
| John Peter Zenger | a publisher of the New York Weekly Journal that stood trial for printing criticism about New York's governor |
| French and Indian War | conflict in North America from 1754-1763 that was part if a worldwide struggle between France and Britain; Britain defeated France and gained French Canada |
| Albany plan of Union | the first formal proposal to unite the colonies by Benjamin Franklin but plan was later defeated |
| 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 | treaty that ended the French and Indian War; British gained all of North America east of the Mississippi River |
| Pontiac's rebellion | revolt against British forts and american settlers in 1763, |
| Proclamation of 1763 | an order in which Britain prohibited the American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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