Basic Vocabulary
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These two colleges began in the New England Colonies
Harvard & Yale
A job that required special training in a skill was called a ________________
trade
The trade between the Colonies, England, and West Africa was called the ________________
Triangular Trade
crops that grow easily and quickly and bring in a large amount of money
cash crop
a variety
diverse
What religious group settled most of the New England Colonies?
Puritans
What were some (at least 2) industries that helped the Middle Colonies make money?
fur trade, farming, master trades
What were the two main industries in the Southern Colonies?
farming (cash crops)
Slave trade or Triangular Trade
a school that was run by a woman, usually in her home, for all children in the area
dame school
a school that was only for boys, where they learned Greek, Latin, math and writing
Grammar school
This woman from Boston, was tried in court and expelled from her colony for the teaching of heresy
Anne Hutchinson
The four colonies of the Middle Colony region were New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and ___________
New York
This specific colony was created for debtors who needed to pay a debt
Georgia
The Quakers believed that they had an ____________ that guided them
inner light
The first textbook in the Colonies
The New England Primer
What were at least two of the most important industries in the New England Colonies?
Shipbuilding, fishing, whaling
This man believed young people should get an education; he was also a writer, inventor and opened the first public library
Benjamin Franklin
plantation
How had the Christian faith fallen asleep (bad ways) in the Colonies?
*more focused on money
*drifted from the truth of God's Word
*church-goers didn't actually experience Christ's salvation
The first representative government in Virginia
House of Burgesses
Puritan pastors prayed in their own words and breached from the ____________________
Bible
What were the three steps to becoming a master tradesman?
apprentice- no pay
journeyman- some pay
master- owned business
This person wrote a book about the evils of slavery
Olaudah Equiano
the belief that the government should not meddle with the beliefs of the church
separation of church and state