The American Republic

Question 1

The colonists were NOT widely concerned with strict social classes

Answer 1

false

Question 2

Who were the people, including Faneuils and Hancocks, who made up the colonial upper class

Answer 2

Aristocrats

Question 3

Did indentured servants need their master’s permission to marry

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Did indentureds servants who ran away often have to pay for it with more service

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

Did may indentured servants work for the same master their entire lives

Answer 5

NO

Question 6

Did many indentured servants eventually become responsible and self reliant

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Who was a servant who came from continental Europe with his family, hoping to find a friend or relative to py the passage

Answer 7

Redemptioners

Question 8

Could embers of the middle class climb the social ladder

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

Did most of the middle class own land and their own home

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

Did most of the middle class own serants

Answer 10

No

Question 11

Were shopkeepers, clergy,en, and carpenters members of the middle class

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

Slaves had to work about twice as long each day as other workers of the colonial era

Answer 12

False

Question 13

The father played a strong role in the ideal colonial family

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Did most socail activity take place outside the home in a colonial family

Answer 14

No

Question 15

Were the parents of the colonial families usually responsible for their children’s education

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

Were the homes of the colonial families often a church and a hospital

Answer 16

Yes

Question 17

Was the home of colonial families often the center of economic activity

Answer 17

Yes

Question 18

Did colonial women take over their husbands’ businesses if their husbands were absent

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

Colonial women usually had the same legal rights as men

Answer 19

False

Question 20

Slave mothers were unable to care for their children during the day

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Slaves raised some of their own food and earned money by selling the excess

Answer 21

true

Question 22

Masters always kept slave families together

Answer 22

False

Question 23

The slave family helped slaves endure the hardships of bondage

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Who wrote the blue baked speller

Answer 24

Noah Webster

Question 25

______ schools met in the homes of widows or single women

Answer 25

Dame

Question 26

Colonial children used this to help them learn the alphabet and other simple lessons

Answer 26

Horn book

Question 27

Where did people in colonial America usually learned Greek latin and natural philosophy

Answer 27

Grammar schools

Question 28

The old deluder satan act provided for local education in the state of

Answer 28

Massachusetts

Question 29

Massachusetts was a leading colony in the provision of education for its children

Answer 29

true

Question 30

How was education in the southern colonies often provided by

Answer 30

Private tutors

Question 31

What college was the first insitution of higher learning in the colonies

Answer 31

Harvard

Question 32

Some colonists continued to send their sons to school in europe even after american colleges were founded

Answer 32

True

Question 33

This system allowed young men in the colonies to learn a trade

Answer 33

apprenticeship

Question 34

Few early colonists believed in the supernatural works of God

Answer 34

False

Question 35

What was the denominational name of the New England Puritans

Answer 35

congreationalists

Question 36

Each anglican church served an area called a parish

Answer 36

true

Question 37

Who were the members of the official church in every southern clony

Answer 37

Anglicans

Question 38

Who were the german settlers who followed the early reformer john huss

Answer 38

Moravians

Question 39

In 1662 this allowed the unsaved children of puritnas to become church members

Answer 39

half-way covenant

Question 40

Maryland was the most tolerant middle colony toward varous religions

Answer 40

False

Question 41

What german religous group waas the first ttha tprinted America’s first German Bible

Answer 41

Dunkers

Question 42

Who were the group of people often given limited freedom by protestant colonists

Answer 42

Jews

Question 43

Who was a virgina preacher during the great awakening

Answer 43

Samuel Davies

Question 44

Who was a virgina preacher during the great awakening

Answer 44

Samuel Davies

Question 45

Who was a pastor at Northampton Massachusetts q

Answer 45

Jonathan Edwards

Question 46

Who started a college in a log cabin

Answer 46

William tennent

Question 47

preached well known sermon entitled sinners in the hands of an angry God

Answer 47

Jonathan edwards

Question 48

What English preacher spoke to large outdoor crowds during the great awakening

Answer 48

George whitefield

Question 49

Who was a devoted missionary to the Indians

Answer 49

David Brainerd

Question 50

What was a movement of the 1700s exalting rational thinking and critical reasoning

Answer 50

Englishtenment

Question 51

Who philosophy asserts that God created the universe and then steped aside to let the laws of nature function without his intervention

Answer 51

Deism

Question 52

Who were the embers of a religion especially strong among some american intellectuals

Answer 52

Unitarianism

Question 53

Why was the great awakening needed in the colonies

Answer 53

People were uninterested in spiritual things