Question | Answer |
learned a trade from an experienced craftsman/ worked for free/ rarely any girls were apprentices | Apprentice |
a religious movement in the 1730s and 1740s that swept through the colonies | Great Awakening |
was one of the best know preachers in the Great Awakening | Jonathan Edwards |
drew thousands of people with his sermons and raised funds to start a home for orphans | George Whitefield |
emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge | Enlightenment |
a famous American Enlightenment figure | Benjamin Franklin |
was an English philosopher that argued that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property/ he challenged the belief that Kings had God-given right to rule | John Locke |
(Great Charter)guaranteed important rights to noblemen and freemen | Magna Carta |
England's chief lawmaking body/ was the colonists' model for representative government | Parliament |
a royal governor that ruled the Dominion of New England | Edmond Andros |
when King James fled the country in 1688 and Parliament named James' Protestant daughter and her husband the new monarchs of England | Glorious Revolution |
(1669) was an agreement to respect the rights of English citizens and of Parliament/ because of this, the rights of English people were strengthened | English Bill of Rights |
when England interfered very little in colonial affairs | Salutary Neglect |
in 1735 he published the New-York Weekly Journal | John Peter Zenger |
(1754-1763) decided which nation would control the northern and eastern parts of North America | French and Indian War |
first formal proposal to unite the colonies/ each colony was to send representatives to a Grand Council/ was later defeated | Albany Plan of union |
was the turning point in the war between France and Britain/when Montreal fell next year, all of Canada was in British hands | Battle of Quebec |
Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi River/it ended French power in North America | Treaty of Paris |
(1763) Native Americans attacked settlers and destroyed almost every British fort west of the Appalachians | Pontiac's Rebellion |
forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians | Proclamation of 1763 |