Chapter 5 Study GuideName ______
Benjamin Franklin
1.______He proposed the 1st formal plan to unite the colonies and was an inventor
and business man who became one of the best-known political thinkers
in the colonies.
George Whitefield
2.______He was a traveling minister who drew thousands with his sermons and
Started a home for orphans and he was behind the spread of the Great
Awakening.
John Peter Zenger
3.______This person’s trial established freedom of the press because he thought
he had the right to complain in his newspaper about New York’s
governor without being arrested.
Enlightenment
4.______A movement that stressed reason and science as the way to acquire
knowledge.
Jonathan Edwards
5.______a traveling minister who preached terrifying sermons about God’s
anger but promised listeners to be saved
John Locke
6.______an English philosopher who argued that people have a natural rights
to life, liberty and property.
Great Awakening
7.______A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730’s
And 1740’s
Magna Carta
8.______This document was the 1st step taken to limit the power of England’s
King.
Enlightenment
9.______The idea that people had a right to life, liberty, and prosperity came from
this era.
English Bill of Rights
10.______The idea that government should be based on laws and not on the
whims of a ruler were established by this document.
Glorious Revolution
11.______The ruling family of England changed with William and Mary taking
over as result of this time period and event.
Parliament
12.______British laws were made by this group and they made rules that
affected the colonies without representation
Salutary Neglects
13.______This English policy called for very little interference in colonial affairs.
George Whitefield
14.______The Great Awakening spirit was spread by this person.
Proclamation of 1763
15.______This document forbade the English colonies from settling on lands
west of the Appalachian Mountains.
French and Indian War
16.______Disagreements over land and the fur trade caused this to happen.
Albany Plan of Union
17.______Benjamin Franklin, our great statesman, proposed this idea.
Treaty of Paris
18.______This document ended the French colonization of North America.
Pontiac’s Rebellion
19.______This event led to the Proclamation of 1763.
Battle of Quebec
20.______This was considered the TURNING POINT of the French and
Indian War.
TRUE OR FALSE
T
21.______The great Enlightenment thinker, John Locke, felt that people had certain rights that the
government must protect.
T
22.______The 1st formal plan to UNITE THE COLONIES was proposed by Benjamin Franklin.
T
23.______Benjamin Franklin, a person who conveyed a lot of thoughts about reason and science,
was a good example of the Enlightenment era.
F
24.______In the French and Indian War, the French and the Indians were on opposite sides.
T
25. ______The French and Indian War was part of the Seven Year’s War between France and Britain.
F
26.______The French won the French and Indian War and gave it control of Canada and lands east of
The Mississippi River.