Colonial Religion
This religion was especially strong among some American intellectuals.
What is Unitarianism?
Colonial children used this "book" to help them learn the alphabet and other simple lessons.
What is a hornbook?
He started a college in a log cabin.
Who is William Tennent?
This group of people made up the colonial upper class.
Who are the aristocrats?
This act provided for local education in Massachusetts.
What is the Old Deluder Satan Act?
The Protestant colonists gave limited freedom to this group.
Who are the Jews?
This was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies.
What is Harvard College?
Born in England, he spoke to large outdoor crowds during the Great Awakening.
Who is George Whitefield?
This was a continental European servant who hoped to find a friend or relative to pay his passage.
Who was a redemptioner?
In 1662 this agreement allowed the unsaved children of Puritans to become church members.
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
The official church in every southern colony.
What was the Anglican Church?
These schools met in the homes of widows or single women.
What are dame schools?
He was a devoted missionary to the Natives.
Who was David Brainerd?
This colonial system allowed young men to learn a trade.
What is apprenticeship?
This was the denominational name for the New England Puritans.
What is Congregationalists?
These were German settlers who followed the early reformer John Huss.
Who were the Moravians?
This is where people in colonial America usually learned Greek, Latin, and natural philosophy.
Where is grammar school?
He was a pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts whose most famous sermon was, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
The middle class rarely owned these.
What are slaves?
This colony was the leading colony in the provision of education for its children.
What is Massachusetts?
This German religious group printed America's first German Bible.
Who were the Dunkers?
This movement of the 1700s exalted rational thinking and critical reasoning.
What is the Enlightenment?
He was a Virginia preacher during the Great Awakening.
Who is Samuel Davies?
This is where most of the social activity took place.
What is inside the home?
This philosophy asserted that God created the universe and then stepped aside to let the laws of nature function without His intervention.
What is Deism?