Week 8 Vocab Mastery (SS/2025)

Revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s

• Enlightenment

• Glorious Revolution

• Great Awakening
• Colonial Awakening

18th century movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment
• Glorious Revolution

• Renaissance

a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, approved in 1215

• Declaration of Independence
• Bill of Rights
• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

England's chief lawmaking body

• Assembly

• Legislature
• Congress
• Parliament

overthrow of the English King James II in 1688 and. his replacement by William and Mary

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

• Monarchial Revolution
• Glorious Revolution

agreement signed by William and Mary to respect the rights of citizens and Parliament, including the right to free elections

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta
• Declaration of Independence
• Bill of Rights

hands-off policy of England toward its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s

• Indifferent attitude
• Negligent approach
• Laissez-faire policy
• Salutary neglect

a large group of families that claim a common ancestor

• tribe
• lineage
• brood
• clan

colonial region that ran along the Appalachian Mountains through the far western part of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies

• Frontier
• Hinterland
• Wilderness
• Backcountry