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Chapter 5 vocab ws
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apprentice | A person who learned a trade from an experienced craftsmen. |
| Great Awakening | A religious movement in the 1730s and 1740s where preachers mentioned that inner religious emotion was more important then outward religious motion |
| Jonathan Edwards | One of the best known preachers in the Great Awakening |
| George Whitefield | Drew thousands of people with his sermons and raised funds to start a home for orphans |
| Enlightenment | emphasized reason and science as paths to knowledge |
| Benjamin Franklin | Was a famous american enlightenment figure |
| John Locke | Argued that people have natural rights. Rights to life, liberty, and property. |
| Magna Carta (great Charter) | The first steps to guaranteeing the rights of an English man |
| Parliament | England's chief law making body |
| Edmund Andros | New England governor that angered colonists by only allowing town meetings once a year, and banning representative assemblies. |
| Glorious Revolution | The process of change from king James in power to king Williams. |
| English Bill of Rights | Document that made parliament pass or cancel laws not the king or queen. And gave people basic rights. |
| Salutary Neglect | The period of time that little law enforcement was present in the colonies. |
| John Peter Zenger | Was a journalist that was tried for criticizing the New York governor. |
| Albany Plan Of Union | The first formal proposal to unite the colonies. |
| Battle of Quebec | The turning point of the French and Indian War. |
| Treaty of Paris | Document that stated that Britten claimed all of the land east of the Mississippi. |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | When Native Americans attacked English forts because the English were not as nice to the Indians as the french were. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians. |