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MA Chapter 4
Making America ch 4
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History
9th Grade
11/19/2010

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John Locke publishes ____________________________ in the year ___________.
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Two Treatises on Government ... 1690
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The Great Awakening begins in _______________ in the year ____________
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New England ... 1734
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subsistence
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Supported by the minimum amount  of food and other resources necessary to sustain life
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absentee landowner
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An estate owner who collects profits through farming or rent but does not live on the land or help cultivate it
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tidewater
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low coastal land drained by tidal streams
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piedmont
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land lying low at the foot of a mountain range
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middle passage
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The crowded, often deadly voyage in which indentured servants or slaves were transported across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe or Africa.

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Stono Rebellion
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Slave rebellion that occurred in South Carolina in 1739; it prompted the colony to pass harsh laws governing the movement of slaves and the capture of runaways

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apprentice
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A person bound by legal agreement to work for an employer for a specified length of time in exchange for instruction in a trade, art, or business
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milliner
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A maker or designer of hats
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Scots-Irish
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Scottish settlers in northern Ireland, many of whom migrated to the colonies in the eighteenth century
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Paxton Boys
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Settlers from Paxton, Pennsylvania, who massacred Conestoga Indians in 1763 and the marched on Philadelphia to demand that the colonial government provide a better defense against the Indians
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Regulators
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Frontier settlers in Carolina who protested their lack of representation in the colonial governments; they were suppressed by the government militia in North Carolina in 1771
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Enlightenment
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An eighteenth century philosophical movement that emphasized the pursuit of knowledge through reason and refused to accept ideas on the strength of religion or tradition alone.
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deism
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The belief that God created the universe in such a way that no divine intervention is necessary for its continued cooperation
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social contract
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An agreement among members of an organized society, or between the government and the governed, which defines and limits the rights and duties of each
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established church
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the official church of a nation or state
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charismatic
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Having a spiritual power or personal characteristic that stirs enthusiasm and devotion in large numbers of people
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Great Awakening
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Series of religious revivals characterized by fiery preaching that swept over the American colonies during the second quarter of the eighteenth century
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Jonathon Edwards
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Congregational minister whose sermons threatening sinners with damnation helped begin the Great Awakening
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George Whitefield
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British evangelist in the Great Awakening; he drew huge crowds during his preaching tours in the colonies
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denomination
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A group of religious congregations that accept the same doctrines and are united under a single name
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benign neglect
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The British policy of lax enforcement of most regulations on the American colonies as long as the colonies remained loyal and were a source of economic benefit
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bureaucrat
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A government official, usually non-elected, who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure
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deference
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Yielding to the judgment or wishes of another person, usually seen as a social superior
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Iroquois League
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An American Indian confederacy in New York, originally composed of  the Mohawk, Oneida, Onandoga, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples; in 1722 the Tuscaroras joined the confederacy.

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Creek Confederacy
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An American Indian confederacy made up of the Creeks and various smaller southeast tribes
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French and Indian War
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A war in North America (1754-1763) that was part of a world-wide struggle between France and Great Britain; it ended with France's defeat

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Albany Plan of Union
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A proposal that the colonies form a union with representative government and an army; Benjamin Franklin drafted it in 1754, but it was never ratified by the colonies
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Treaty of Paris (1763)
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Treaty that ended the French and Indian War in 1763; it gave all of French Canada and the Spanish Floridas to Great Britain.

 

Not to be confused with Treaty of Paris in 1783 that ended the Revolutionary War. 

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