-Great Awakening is a religious movement that swept the colonies

-Showed that everyone was equal in God's eyes

-Images of God's anger was shown by a priest(Jonathan Edwards). These images terrified listeners

-George Whitfield drew thousands of people with his sermons and rasied funds to start homes for orphans

-Encouraged ideas of equality

-The Enlightenment is the movement that emphazied reason and science as a path to knowledge

-Benjamin Franklin was famous Enlightenment figure

-Enlightenment was mainly involved with wealthier, educated men

-Began in Europe, but effected colonies as well

-Discovered natural laws in governing the universe within movement

-John Locke argued that people have natural rights(Right to life, right to liberty, and right to pursuit of happiness)

-John Locke was a man who discovered the human rights that all humans have.

-These rights are right to live, right to liberty, right to pursuit of happiness

-Magna Carta(Also known as Great Charter) was a document that guaranteed important rights to freemen and noblemen-those not bound to a master

-King needed the noble's money to finance a war

-Limited power of the king

-Property could not be seized by the king or his officials

-Could not be taxed, unless a group of prominents men agreed

-Could not be put to trial based on official's word, without witnesses

-Punished only by a jury of their peers(same social rank)

-English Bill of Rights was the agreement to respect the rights of English citizens in Parliament

-King or queen cannot cancel laws or impose taxes unless Parliament agreed

-Less power for king and queen

-Protect rights for English citizens and Parliament

-Glorious Revolution is where Willam and Mary new monarch to England was change in leadership

-Change in England leadership

-No support from the monarchy of James

-It was a hands-off policy. Parliament passed the laws regulating trade, the use of money, and apprenticeships in the colonies

-Governors rarely enforced these laws

-It was the first formal proposal to unite the colonies

-Ben Franklin came up with the plan

-Each colony had sent representatives to the Grand Council

-Represented by Ben Franklin's "join or die" poster

-Treaty of Paris was a treaty that said Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi River.

-This was made because Britain won the French and Indian War

-Britain also got most of Canada

-The turning point was the Battle of Quebec

-When Montreal fell, all of Canada was in British hands

-This helped Britain in the war