Rylee B Flashcards
Salutary Neglect?
the colonies were doing very well and loved being left alone, but then Britan wanted to start taxing them for their money and the colonies did not like this.
What colony passed laws to start public education?
Massachusetts
How was education funded or paid for?
Public and private money
Did North or the South have more schools? Why?
North had more schools because they were more sucessful and were more worried about education
Who was Ben Franklin?
Ben Franklin was a colonial writer that people loved
What was his most popular work?
His most popular work was Poor Richard’s Almanack
What did it include?
filled with pithy saying that usually had a moral
What else did he do?
He also was a buisnissman, community leader, sientist, inventor, and a diplomat
what moment changed the decline of religion?
the great awakening
what happened in the result of the great awakening?
there were more groups of religion so we had to learn how to come together as a community
divine rights?
humans got there rights from the monarch and the monarch got rights from god
natural rights?
rights you were born with including life liberty and property
would colonists like natural or divine rights better?
natural rights because it gives them more power not them rights not just the monarch also the rights got hrough people not just the king
where did most people live? why?
on farms because familys were very self sufficiant and close
who could vote?
wite men or people who owned land