Important People
This was the primary occupation of Jonothan Edwards and George Whitefield.
What are preachers?
This was the most common occupation in the colonies.
What is farming?
In this system, boys learned a trade by living with and working for an expert in that trade.
What was the apprenticeship system?
This member of the family was responsible for providing for the family financially and leading the family in social and religous matters.
Who was the father?
This was the largest food crop in the colonies.
What is corn?
These founding fathers were all deists. (Name one.)
Who were Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Ethan Allan
These were people who agreed to work for someone for a set amount of time in exchange for having their voyage to the colonies paid for.
What were indentured servants?
The wealthy were able to hire these people to teach their children.
Who were tutors?
This member of the family was responsible for housework, supervising children, and managing servants if the family was wealthy enough to afford them.
Who was the mother?
This was the second stage of the triangular trade, in which ships traveled from Africa to the colonies. Ships were usually carrying a cargo of slaves on this part of their route.
What was the middle passage?
This man started a violent uprising because he did not believe governor William Berkley was doing enough to protect colonists from Native attacks.
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
Farmers, tradesmen, and clergymen were all members of this social class.
What was the middle class?
This was the first college founded in the colonies.
Where is Harvard?
Describe the role of children in the colonial family.
Children were expected to help with tasks. Boys normally worked alongside their fathers on the farm, and girls helped their mothers with housework.
This was the undeveloped area at the edge of the settled areas in the colonies.
What was the frontier?
This man was an emancipated slave and preacher who was active in the Savanah area. He later became a missionary to Jamaica.
Who was George Liele?
This is the belief in a god who created the world but is not actively involved in it.
What is deism?
These were similar to today's elementary schools, but instruction was more rigorous.
What were grammar schools?
This was the typical age that slave children were expected to join their parents on the field.
10 years old
These are people who believe that individuals should have a say in church government.
What are Congregationalists?
Also known as Metacomet, this man was the son of the Native American chief Massasoit. An important conflict is named after him.
Who was King Philip?
This belief system rejects the doctrine of the trinity and the necessity of Christ's blood for salvation.
What is Unitarianism?
These were schools run by widows or single women from their homes.
What were dame schools?
This task was typically given to elderly slave women.
What was caring for slave children?
This important piece of legislation required towns with 50 or more people to appoint a schoolmaster. The intent of this act was to ensure people could read so that they would be able to read the Bible.
What was the Old Deluder Satan Act?