Social Class
Custodians of culture.
Who were Aristocrats?
Modern day elementary schools.
What were grammar schools?
Members of a religion especially strong among some American intellectuals.
What are Unitarians?
Family leader of religious instruction at home
Who was the father?
What was a slave?
Required four to seven years of labor.
Who were indentured servants?
First institution of higher learning
What was Harvard College?
Members of the official church in every southern colony.
Who were the Anglicans?
Ideal family
What was a patriarchal family?
A high-backed bench.
What was a settle?
Who were redemptioners?
Seven years or the age of 21
What was an apprentice?
A group (or colony) of people often given limited freedom by Protestant colonists.
Who were the Jews?
Puritan believed this to be the great purpose of marriage.
What was companionship?
Introduced by Swedish setters along the Delaware River.
What were Log Cabins?
The lowest rungs on the social ladder were occupied by these people.
Who were servants?
Prevented keeping people "from the knowledge of the Scriptures"
German settlers who followed the early reformer John Huss
Who were the Moravians?
A "small picture of God's Kingdom within the community"
What was a "A little Commonwealth" by Cotton Mather.
In colonial New York, these two families attained high office or married wealthy.
Who were the Roosevelts and Van Resselaers?
Colonial core values that represented our modern core values.
What were freedom, equality, individualism, and growth?
Reading from a "paddle".
What was a hornbook?
A German religious group that printed America's first German Bible.
Who were the Dunkers?
The most important piece of furniture developed by the colonists.
What was the Windsor Chair?
Who was Benjamin Harris?