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Developing America
An American Way of Life Develops
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social status depends on these 2 things | wealth and occupation |
| Highest social class | gentry |
| People in the gentry where | Landowners, planters, church officials, succesful merchants |
| Middle class people where | Professional people, skilled artisans, and shopkeepers |
| Lowest class people where | Slaves and indentured servants |
| In 1730s and 1740s this happened | Great Awakening |
| One of the leading Massachusetts preachers in Great Awakening | Jonathan Edward |
| Emphasized Science and Religion | Enlightenment |
| The english writer who was the enlightenments greates thinkers | John Locke |
| Came up with the idea that colonies make a social contract with the government | John Locke |
| Proved that lightning was a huge electrical charge | Benjaman Franklin |
| Ben Franklin wrote this book on hard work | Poor Richard's Almanac |
| Ben Franklin improved these | mail services |
| An importent poet | Anne Dudley Bradsteet |
| An african american slave | Phillis Wheatley |