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Question | Answer |
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Did early colonists believe in the supernatural works of God? | Yes, MANY did |
Even after American colleges were founded, where did some colnists send their sons to school? | Europe |
Who was leading a colony in the provision of education for its children? | Massachussetts |
Who preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" | Jonathon Edwards |
Did other colonial workers work just as hard as the slaves? | Yes |
Were the colnists concerned with strict social classes? | Yes |
Who played a strong role in the ideal colonial family? | The father |
Did colonial women have the same legal rights as men? | NO |
Was Maryland the most tolerant colony toward other religions? | NO |
What had a GREAT effect on intellectuals? | The Unitarian movement |
Members of a religion especially strong among some American intellectuals | Unitarians |
People often treated as pagans by Protestant colonists | Jews |
Were supervised by commisaries sent by the Bishop of London | Anglicans |
German settlers who followed the early reformer John Huss | Moravians |
French Protestants who settled in some of the colnies | Dunkers |
Wrote the Blue-Backed Speller | Noah Webster |
Started a college in a alog cabin | William Tenent |
Devoted missionary to the Indians | David Brainerd |
Virginia preacher during the Great Awakening | Samuel Davies |
Pastor at Northhampton, Massachussetts | Jonathon Edwards |
What was the denominational name that described New England Puritans? | Congregationalists |
What movement of the 1700's exalted rational thinking and critical reasoning? | The Enlightenment |
What agreement in 1662 allowed the unsaved children of Puritans to become church members? | The Half-Way Covenant |
What 'book' did colonial children use to help them learn the alphabet? | Hornbook |
Under what system did young men in the colonies learn a trade? | Apprenticeship |
What were schools that met in the homes of widows of single ladies called? | Dame schools |
What type of servant came from continental Europe with his family, hoping to find a friend or relative to pay their passage? | Redemptioner |
What type of people, including the Faneuils and Hancocks, made up the colonial upper class? | Aristocrats |
What act provided for local education in Massachussetts? | Old Deluder Satan Act |
What was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies? | Harvard |
What English preacher spoke to large outdoor crowds during the Great Awakening? | George Whitefield |
People in colonial America usually learned Greek, Latin and natural philosophy in... | Grammar school |
Were Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin converted as a result of the Great Awakening? | No |
What philosophy asserted that God created the universe and then stepped aside to let the laws of nature function without His intervention? | Deism |
Who often provided education in the southern colonies? | Private tutors |
Did most middle class own servants? | No |
In the colnial famile, where did most social activity take place? | Inside the home |
If their husbands were absent, what did colonial women do | Took over their husbands' businesses |
Did masters always keep slave families together? | No |
Why was the Great Awakening needed in the colonies | People were uniterested in spiritual things |
Why did the Puritan Congregationalists adopt the Half-Way Covenant,and what was the result? | Essay, P.60-61 |
List and describe five of the seven results of the Great Awakening | Essay, p.65-67 |