Chapter 5 Terms

Question 1

Methodist Revival

Answer 1

Evangelical revival of John and Charles Wesley in England

Question 2

Great Awakening

Answer 2

Great revival of the American colonies in the early to mid-1700s

Question 3

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Answer 3

The most famous sermon in American history, preached by Jonathan Edwards in 1741

Question 4

Virginia Rangers

Answer 4

A unit of colonial militia that preserved law and order in the countryside and defended frontier posts from Indian attack

Question 5

French and Indian War

Answer 5

1754-1763, war between the French with their Indian allies and the British with the colonial militia, called the Seven Years War in Europe, British victory

Question 6

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 6

Grenville’s attempt to control the colonies by prohibiting colonial expansion beyond the Appalachian mountains

Question 7

Stamp Act

Answer 7

Parliament’s tax which required the colonists to purchase a stamp (seal) for all legal documents

Question 8

Quartering Act

Answer 8

Required colonists, when necessary, to supply and lodge British soldiers

Question 9

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 9

Meeting of nine colonies in New York to address the growing control and taxation of Britain

Question 10

Declaratory Act

Answer 10

Declaration of Parliament reminding the colonists that they were subordinate to England

Question 11

Half-way covenant

Answer 11

An agreement in the mid-1600s among New England churches to grant membership to unconverted descendants of church members