APUSH Chapter 4 Vocab
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 41 Backcountry | a colonial region that ran along the Appalachian Mountains. |
| 42 Transportation acts | An act passed by Parliament in 1718 that allowed judges in England, Scotland, and Ireland to send convicted felons to the American colonies |
| 43 The Middle Ground | Area between European empires and Indian Sovereignty. Different members of Tribes, Europeans and missionaries lived side by side. |
| 44 The Enlightenment | a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine. |
| 45 Salutary Neglect | idea that the colonies benefited by being left alone, without too much British interference |
| 46 The Great Awakening | This was a major religious revival in the colonies, which began in the 1730's with its leader being Jonathan Edwards. |
| 47 New Light Preachers | spoke to large crowds about the fire and brimstone eternity all sinners would face if they did not absolve their sins |
| 48 Old Light Preachers | Preachers who taught the same even after the great awakening. |
| 49 Sinners in The Hands Of an Angry God | title of Jonathan Edward's most famous sermon |
| 50 Itinerant Preachers | Ministers who went from town to town giving fire and brimstone speeches to scare the people into more religious lifestyles. |
| 51 Royal Governors | Appointed by the King to rule and make laws for the colony; Colonists had no say in the gov't |
| 52 King William's War | First small war between French and English that had small battles fought in Northern New England. |
| 53 Queen Anne's war | second in a series of four French and Indian Wars fought between France and England in North America for control of the continent |
| 54 King Georges War | Fourth expedition from New England captured a fort which controlled the Gulf of Saint Lawrence |
| 55 Albany Plan of Union | proposal by Benjamin Franklin to create one government for the 13 colonies |
| 56 French and Indian war | This struggle between the British and the French in the colonies of North America was part of a worldwide war known as the Seven Years' War. |
| 57 Peace of Paris 1763 | Treaty resulting in Britain getting French Canada and Spanish Florida and Spain getting the Louisiana Territory. Ended the French and Indian War. |
| 58 Proclamation of 1763 | law forbidding english colonists to settle west of the appalachian mountains |
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