| Term | Definition |
|---|
| 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 |
| Jonathan Edwards | one of the best known preachers who terrified listeners with images of God's anger but promised they could be saved |
| George Whitefield | a minister who drew thousands of people with his sermons and raised funs to start a home for orphans |
| enlightenment | a movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge |
| Benjamin Franklin | a famous American Enlightenment figure |
| John Locke | an English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property |
| Magna Carta | a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England |
| Parliament | England's chief law-making body |
| Edmund Andros | a royal governor who angered the 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 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 |
| salutary neglect | a hands-off policy of England toward its American colonies |
| John Peter Zenger | the publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal who stood trial for printing criticism of New York's governor |
| French and Indian War | a conflict in North America that was part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain |
| Albany Plan of Union | the first formal proposal to unite the American colonies |
| Battle of Quebec | a battle won by the British over the French |
| Treaty of Paris | the treaty that ended the French and Indian War |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | a revolt against British forts and American settlers |
| Proclamation of 1763 | an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists of settling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| What are some colonial values? | social rank, land ownership, voting rights, respect |
| What was a role of the children? | apprentices |
| What were some roles of women? | housework, grew cash crops, traded |
| Which area had the highest literacy rate in the colonies? | New England |
| Who was it illegal to educated? | slaves |
| What were some effects of the Great Awakening? | seeking a balance, Jonathan Edwards wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
| What were some effects of the Enlightenment? | reason and science were emphasized, John Locke believed in natural rights |
| What were some some rights that colonists expected as English subjects? | no taxation, cannot have land taken, right of trial |
| Why did colonists challenge the rule of Governor Edmund Andros? | he ended representative assemblies, he made it so they could only have town meetings once a year, put innocent people in jail |
| How did England's Glorious Revolution effect the colonies? | William and Mary signed the English Bill of Rights |
| What was the importance of Zenger's trial? | Zenger wins freedom of the press |
| What were some French colonial claims? | the Ohio River Valley, the Great Lakes, New Orleans, Quebec, St. Lawrence |
| What side(s) did the Native Americans fight for in the French and Indian war? | the French and American sides |
| Why did the British win the French and Indian War? | they used their best generals, they paid colonists to fight |
| What was a result of the French and Indian War? | British claimed all land from the atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River |
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