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| apprentice | learns a trade from an experienced craftsman |
| Great Awakening | religious movement that preached that religious emotion was more important than outward religious behavior |
| Jonathan Edwards | famous preacher of the Great Awakening, terrified listeners with images of God's images |
| Goerge Whitefield | preacher during the Great Awakening who raised funds to start a home for orphans |
| Enlightenment | movement that stressed intelligence; appealed to wealthy, educated people like Ben Franklin and Isaac Newton |
| Benjamin Franklin | famous inventor, author, organized the first fire department and lending library |
| John Locke | English Philosopher who argued that people have natural rights and that governments are created to protect these natural rights; these rights are to life, liberty, and property |
| Colonial Social Ranks - Highest | large landowners, church officials, government officials, and wealthy merchants |
| Colonial Social Ranks - Upper Middle | small farmers, tradespeople, |
| Colonial Social Ranks - Lower Middle | renters, unskilled workers |
| Colonial Social Ranks - Low | indentured servants, slaves |
| ransom | to pay for a captive's release |
| breeched | when a young boy no longer wears a skirt or smock like the younger children |
| reason for learning to read | to understand the Bible |
| dame school | place where women were taught the alphabet and used the Bible to learn to read |
| Poor Richard's Almanack | written by Benjamin Franklin; includes many saying that are still repeated today like, "Haste makes waste." |
| Princeton and Brown | well-known American Colleges that were established at this time to train ministers |
| Magna Carta | 1215 document that guaranteed certain rights as an English citizen accepted by King John; also known as the Great Charter |
| Parliament | England's chief lawmaking body; made up of 2 houses- one is the House of Commons whose members are elected officials and the House of Lords which is made up of nonelected church officials, judges, and nobles |
| Edmund Andros | royal governor who angered colonists by ending their representative assemblies and allowing town meetings only once a year |
| Glorious Revolution | when King James who was a Catholic tried to overturn anti-Catholic laws; King James was forced to give up his throne and his daughter Mary took over the throne with her husband William, ruler from the Netherlands |
| English Bill of Rights | agreement by the English Monarchy to respect the rights of English citizens and Parliament |
| salutary reglect | hands off policy of the government on economic affairs |
| John Peter Zenger | publisher who stood trial for printing criticism of a NY governor; at his trial he claimed that people had the right to speak the truth, the jury agreed and he was released |
| French and Indian War | decided which nation would control the northern and eastern parts of North America |
| Albany Plan of Union | written by Ben Franklin as a formal proposal to unite the colonies |
| Battle of Quebec | turning point in the French and Indian War, at that point all land in Canada was in the British's hands |
| Treaty of Paris | British claimed all land east of the Mississippi; New Orleans and Louisiana went to Spain, ended French power in North America |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | Indians attacked settlers because they were refused supplies and settlers were going into the land west of the Mississippi |
| Proclamation of 1763 | forbade colonists to settle west of the Mississippi |
| fur trade | created economic and military alliances |
| Seven Year's War | conflict which included the French and Indian War; worldwide struggle for empires between Great Britain and France |
