Chapter 4-Daily Life In The Colonies

Question 0

Redemptioners

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Had a relative or friend pay for part of their passage.

Question 1

Aristocrats

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Refined tastes and manners.

Question 2

Indentured servants

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Gained passage to the New World in exchange for 4-7 years labor.

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Patriarchy

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The father was the leader of the household.

Question 4

Dame schools

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Small schools led by single or widowed women.

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Grammar schools

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Similar to elementary schools.

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Hornbook

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A paddle shaped board that taught children how to read.

Question 7

Old Deluder Satan Act,1647

Answer 7

Required towns with 50 or more families to appoint a schoolmaster.

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Harvard Collage

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Founded by the Puritans in 1636.

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Apprenticeship

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A system that was used to teach trades.

Question 10

Congregationalists

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Dominated by Puritans.

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Half-Way Covenant

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Allowed unbelievers to be baptized into the church.

Question 12

Parish

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A neighborhood or area that each church served.

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Moravians

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Followers of John Huss.

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Great Awakening

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The revival of Christians starting in the 1720s.

Question 15

Samuel Davies

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Greatest figure in the southern Great Awakening.

Question 16

Jonathan Edwards

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Leader of the Great Awakening in New England.

Question 17

George Whitefield

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English evangelist.

Question 18

David Brainerd

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Best-known missionary to the Indians.

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Enlightenment

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Taught that science and reasoning were the only reliable ways to find truth.

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Deism

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Taught that God created the universe but then allowed the laws of nature to guid the universe.

Question 21

Unitarianism

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Denied the doctrine of the Trinity.