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apprentice | someone who learns a trade from an experienced craftsman |
Great Awakening | a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s |
Jonathan Edwards | well-known minister of the Great Awakening |
George Whitefield | popular minister of the Great Awakening, who drew crowds of thousands |
Enlightenment | Intellectual movement stressing reason and science as the paths to knowledge |
Benjamin Franklin | American Enlightenment figure who was a scientist and inventor |
John Locke | English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights |
Magna Carta | a 1215 document granting rights to English people |
Parliament | England's chief lawmaking body |
Edmund Andros | Royal governor who limited colonists' rights |