The American Republic Flashcards
The colonists were NOT widely concerned with strict social classes
false
Who were the people, including Faneuils and Hancocks, who made up the colonial upper class
Aristocrats
Did indentured servants need their master’s permission to marry
Yes
Did indentureds servants who ran away often have to pay for it with more service
Yes
Did may indentured servants work for the same master their entire lives
NO
Did many indentured servants eventually become responsible and self reliant
Yes
Who was a servant who came from continental Europe with his family, hoping to find a friend or relative to py the passage
Redemptioners
Could embers of the middle class climb the social ladder
Yes
Did most of the middle class own land and their own home
Yes
Did most of the middle class own serants
No
Were shopkeepers, clergy,en, and carpenters members of the middle class
Yes
Slaves had to work about twice as long each day as other workers of the colonial era
False
The father played a strong role in the ideal colonial family
True
Did most socail activity take place outside the home in a colonial family
No
Were the parents of the colonial families usually responsible for their children’s education
Yes
Were the homes of the colonial families often a church and a hospital
Yes
Was the home of colonial families often the center of economic activity
Yes
Did colonial women take over their husbands’ businesses if their husbands were absent
Yes
Colonial women usually had the same legal rights as men
False
Slave mothers were unable to care for their children during the day
False
Slaves raised some of their own food and earned money by selling the excess
true
Masters always kept slave families together
False
The slave family helped slaves endure the hardships of bondage
True
Who wrote the blue baked speller
Noah Webster
______ schools met in the homes of widows or single women
Dame
Colonial children used this to help them learn the alphabet and other simple lessons
Horn book
Where did people in colonial America usually learned Greek latin and natural philosophy
Grammar schools
The old deluder satan act provided for local education in the state of
Massachusetts
Massachusetts was a leading colony in the provision of education for its children
true
How was education in the southern colonies often provided by
Private tutors
What college was the first insitution of higher learning in the colonies
Harvard
Some colonists continued to send their sons to school in europe even after american colleges were founded
True
This system allowed young men in the colonies to learn a trade
apprenticeship
Few early colonists believed in the supernatural works of God
False
What was the denominational name of the New England Puritans
congreationalists
Each anglican church served an area called a parish
true
Who were the members of the official church in every southern clony
Anglicans
Who were the german settlers who followed the early reformer john huss
Moravians
In 1662 this allowed the unsaved children of puritnas to become church members
half-way covenant
Maryland was the most tolerant middle colony toward varous religions
False
What german religous group waas the first ttha tprinted America’s first German Bible
Dunkers
Who were the group of people often given limited freedom by protestant colonists
Jews
Who was a virgina preacher during the great awakening
Samuel Davies
Who was a virgina preacher during the great awakening
Samuel Davies
Who was a pastor at Northampton Massachusetts q
Jonathan Edwards
Who started a college in a log cabin
William tennent
preached well known sermon entitled sinners in the hands of an angry God
Jonathan edwards
What English preacher spoke to large outdoor crowds during the great awakening
George whitefield
Who was a devoted missionary to the Indians
David Brainerd
What was a movement of the 1700s exalting rational thinking and critical reasoning
Englishtenment
Who philosophy asserts that God created the universe and then steped aside to let the laws of nature function without his intervention
Deism
Who were the embers of a religion especially strong among some american intellectuals
Unitarianism
Why was the great awakening needed in the colonies
People were uninterested in spiritual things
