People
Individuals who gained passage to America in return for several years of labor upon arrival in the colonies.
Who were Indentured Servants|?
Conflict in Virginia between frontier settlers and the colonial government.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Type of school, similar to a modern day elementary school.
Destinations of the Triangular Trade Route.
What are Europe, Africa and the Americas?
Places where Indians who became Christians could learn about the Bible and European law, manners, and town life.
What are praying towns?
Farmed enough food to feed their families.
Who were subsistence farners?
Colonial legislature, or elected assembly, had this because it paid the governor’s salary and financed government activities.
What is the the “power of the purse?"
The name of the paddle shaped book that colonial children used to help them learn to read.
What is a hornbooK?
The main north-south pathway from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
What is the Great Wagon Road?
Allowed children to be baptized into the church even if the parents did not profess salvation
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
The name of Jonathon Edwards famous sermon.
What is "Sinners at the Hand of an Angry God."
1637 war between the Massachusetts Bay colonists and the neighboring Indians.
What is the Pequot War?
What is an apprentice?
The first college in the southern colonies.
What is the College of William and Mary?
New England Puritan churches in which the members had a voice in how they operate.
What were Congregationalists?
He traveled to America seven times, preaching thousands of sermons and establishing an orphanage in Georgia.
Who is George Whitefield?
The three-year conflict (1675–78) between the Indians and New England colonists.
What is King Philip's War?
The first institution of higher education (college) in the colonies.
What is Harvard?
Place where Dame schools met.
What is in the home of single women or widows?
Printed America’s first German Bible.
Who was the Morovians?
The age missionary David Brainerd died.
What is 29?
Another name for local judges.
What is Justice of the Peace?
The two languages (other than English) learned in a grammar school.
What is Latin and Greek?
The number of families in a town required for the school to require a schoolmaster per the Old Satan Deluder Act.
What is 50 families?
Religious group who got their name from their method of baptism.
Who were Dunkers?