lauren k Flashcards
what is salutary neglect?
the colonies were doing well and making mony with the british not having very strict laws but the british wanted to make more monty so they had to start taxing the colonies and making laws stricters. the coloines didnt like this and it lead to the american reveloution.
what colony passed laws to start public education?
massachusetts
how was education paid for?
private and public money
did north or south have more schools? why?
north beacuse people in the south lived far away from eachother amd were busy working.
who was ben franklin ?
ben was the best loved writer in colonial time
what was bj most famus work? what did it include?
poor richards almanack. it was full of pitty sayings that mostly had morals
what other things did bj do?
he was a bisnuess man comunity leader scientest inventor and a diplomant
what moment changed the decline of religion?
the great awakening
explain what happened as the result of the great awakening?
there were more groups of religion so we had to learn how to come together as a community.
what were divine rights?
humans got there rights from the monarch and the monarch got the rights from god.
what were natural rights?
rights you are born with including life liberty and property
would colonists like divine rights or natural rights better? why?
natural rights because it gives them powers not them rights not just the monarch also the rights go through the people not just the king.
where did most people live? why?
on farms because family’s were very self sufficient and close
who could vote?
men who had property
when a women marries what happens to her money and property?
the man she marries gets it.
