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03 Heritage Studies5
The Thirteen Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| heresy | belief contrary to Scripture |
| journeyman | person who has finished an apprenticeship, is skilled, but still working to become a master in that trade |
| meetinghouse | building in colonial times used for town meetings and religious services |
| pamphlet | short paper on a single subject |
| separation of church and state | belief that the government should not meddle in church matters |
| effects of the Great Awakening | greater emphasis on evangelism, new colleges, greater awareness of freedom |
| William Penn | started a colony where people of any religion could be free to worship as they chose |
| House of Burgesses | first representative government in America |
| responsibilities of the justice of the peace | settled problems, held trials, collected taxes |
| proprietary colony | had king’s permission to choose its own governor |
| representative government | government where people elect their lawmakers |
| Jonathan Edwards | pastor who led more than three hundred people to Christ during the Great Wakening |
| Benjamin Franklin | person who opened the first public library in America |
| Thomas Hooker | founded Hartford, which joined with two other towns to become Connecticut |
| royal colonies | King of England had direct control over colony |
| George Whitefield | evangelist who preached with a powerful voice in the colonies during the Great Awakening |
| middle class | name of social class that worked as tradesmen, farmers, shopkeepers, and ship captains, owned some land and had a few servants or slaves |
| lower class | social class that depended on their masters for their daily needs and was made up of servants and slaves |
| New England colonies | New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut |
| middle colonies | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware |
| southern colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina |
| Find on map Connecticut, New York, Virginia, South Carolina | practice on map on page 47 |