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03 Heritage Studies5
The Thirteen Colonies
Term | Definition |
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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 | pater 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 |