Colonial Society
Denominations and the Great Awakening
Races in the Colonies
Schools and Colleges
100
What system did Britain have that America did not?
What is a class system?
100
The two established (tax supported) churches.
What is the Anglican and the Congressional.
100
The location that most Germans settled in.
What is back-country Pennsylvania?
100
The First college in America.
What is Harvard?
200
The location of two major almshouses.
What is Philadelphia and New York?
200
The three major denominations in colonial America?
What is Congregational, Anglican, and Presbyterian?
200
The major nationalities.
What is English, Scots-Irish, and African?
200
The location of the majority of colleges.
What is New England?
300
The decrease in Northern farming space?
What is the cause of northern homelessness?
300
The location of the beginning of the Great Awakening and the man that started it.
What is Massachusetts and Jonathan Edwards?
300
Someone that moves onto land, but does not legally own it.
What is a squatter?
300
The focus of most schools.
What is religion?
400
The leading American "industry." Tobacco and cotton.
What is agriculture?
400
Subject stressed by George Whitefield that describes God's ability to do everything.
What is divine omnipotence?
400
Document signed by 56 people, 18 of which were not English natives.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
400
The ninth college in America, but was opened as an Indian missionary school.
What is Dartmouth?
500
The most important single manufacturing activity.
What is lumbering?
500
Skeptical Orthodox clergymen. Defenders of the Great Awakening.
What is "old lights" and "new lights?"
500
Quote stated by the French settler Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur.
What is, "A strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country."
500
The cause of the lack of schools in the south.
What is wide, spread out areas?
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