Terms
People
Puritans
Schools and Jobs
Facts
100
– division of the power of government into separate branches
What is separation of power
100
– a Massachusetts preacher who was a leader in the Great Awakening
Who is Johnathan Edwards.
100
What schools today would compare to Puritan grammar schools?
What are high schools.
100
Some women opened ________ schools in their homes to teach young boys and girls
What is Dame.
100
Enslaved Africans were ________ to farm and plantation owners.
What is auctioned.
200
– the belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God
What is divine right.
200
– America’s first poet of African descent
Who is Phillis Wheatley.
200
What happened to Puritan towns that did not set up the required schools?
What is they paid a fine.
200
How did the southern gentry usually educate their children?
What is they hired private tutors.
200
____- strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves.
What are slave codes.
300
– rights that belong to every human being from birth
What is natural.
300
– the first colonial poet?
Who is Anne Bradstreet.
300
Every Puritan town with at least 50 families was required to?
What is to start an elementary school.
300
Many standard contracts of an indentured servant failed to mention the servant’s wages. Why?
What is Indentured servants did not get paid any wages.
300
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
What is a colonial poet of African descent.
400
– schools that women opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write
What is Dame.
400
– a colonial writer, scientist, inventor, businessman, community leader, and diplomat
Who is Benjamin Franklin.
400
Unlike modern public schools, colonial public schools included instruction in?
What is religion.
400
At around what age were colonial children expected to begin working?
What is 7.
400
In colonial times, how did a young man often learn a trade?
What is by becoming an apprentice.
500
- the upper class of colonial society
What is the Gentry.
500
John Locke and the Baron de Montesquieu were two important thinkers in a movement called the ________.
What is Enlightment.
500
What was the only subject taught in English colleges?
What is ministry.
500
What groups could be taught in to read in New York?
What are enslaved Africans and Native Americans.
500
In colonial families, who usually handled childcare and domestic duties?
Who are females.
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