The Structure of Colonial Society
Massachusetts accepted several types of Protestants, but excluded ________ and _______.
Who are non-Christians and Catholics?
The first colonial statue granting religious freedom to all Christians, but it called for death of all non-Christians. It was created to provide a safe haven for Catholics
What is Maryland Act of Toleration?
Ship building, Logging, Fishing, Whaling and Commerce.
The New England Economy
Painter who went to England to acquire the necessary training and financial support to establish himself as a prominent artist.
Americans felt attracted to a European movement in literature and philosophy that is known as the ________.
What is the Enlightenment?
The government of each colony had a _______ assembly that was elected by eligible voters.
What is representative?
______ were dominant in Virginia and some of the other southern colonies.
Who are the Anglicans?
An economic policy in which the colonies were to provide raw materials to the parent country of growth and profit of the parent country
What is Mercantilism?
Everyone in colonial society, except African Americans, could improve their standard of living and social status with hard work
What is Social Mobility?
In 1735, he published a true, but unflattering article about New York's royal governor. According to English common law at the time this was a criminal act, but he was acquitted by a jury.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
All of the colonies permitted the practice of different ______, but with varying degrees of freedom.
What are religions?
They were dissenters who questioned the authority of the Church in Massachusetts and were removed from the Colony
Who is Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
The industrious descendants of the ______ profited from logging, shipbuilding, fishing, trading, and rum-distilling.
Who are the Puritans?
Written by Benjamin Franklin, this book written in 1732 and annually revised, contained aphorisms and advice.
What is Poor Richards Almanac?
A major influence on the Enlightenment and on American thinking was the work of _____ _____, 17th century English philosopher and political theorist.
Who is John Locke?
Most _____ had a higher standard of living than did most Europeans.
Who are the colonists?
Concept in which people who have not had the complete conversion experience can have partial membership in the Church.
What is the Half-Way Coventry?
_______ were self-sufficient, they grew their own food and had their own slave craftworkers.
What are plantations?
The first colonial colleges were _____, meaning they promoted the doctrines of a particular religious group.
What is sectarian?
Locke said, citizens had a right and obligation to revolt against whatever government failed to protect their _____.
What are natural rights?
Both Africans and non-English immigrants brought ______ _______ that would modify the majority of culture.
What are diverse influences?
In this sermon this author stated...
"There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God"
What Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards?
Between 1650 and 1673 England passed a series of acts which establish rules for colonial trade.
* Trade to and from the colonies could be carried only by English or colonial-built ships, which could be operated only by English or colonial crews.
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What is navigation Acts?
The poetry of _____ ______ is noteworthy both for her triumph over slavery and quality of her verse.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
The dominant form of local government in the New England colonies, in which the people of the town would regularly come together to vote directly on public issues.
What are Town Hall meetings?