Ch. 5: Beginnings of An American Identity

An 18th Century movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge.

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

• Apprentice

• Proclamation of 1763

A famous American Enlightenment figure/person. He also discovered that lightning is electricity with his kite experiment.

• George Washington

• King George

• Mr. Snook

• Benjamin Franklin

An English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

Also known as “Great Charter” a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved by King John in 1215.

• U.S. Constitution

• English Bill of Rights

• U.S. Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

England’s chief law-making body. Hint: has 2 houses, the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

• Parliament
• Supreme Court
• Prime Minister's Office
• Queen's Council

A beginner who learns a trade or a craft from an experienced master. Hint: for teenage boys only!

• Apprentice
• Intern
• Student
• Trainee

One of the best-known preachers, terrified listeners with images of God’s anger but promised they could be saved. HINT: Did NOT start a school for boys.

• John Wesley
• Jonathan Edwards
• George Whitefield
• Charles Spurgeon

The 1763 treaty that ended the French and Indian War; France gave up all of North America east of the Mississippi River

• Treaty of London

• Treaty of Versailles
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Treaty of Paris

A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.

• The Great Houdini

• The Enlightenment
• The Great Awakening

• The Renaissance

The country that won the Battle of Quebec which was the turning point of the war.

• Russia

• France

• United States

• Britain/England