Social Class
What do you call a rich person in colonial times?
An Aristocrats
What was a patriarchy?
What group tried to create a Christian Society in New England?
Congregationalists
The first institution of higher learning was
Harvard College
Who was George Whitefield?
An English preacher during the Great Awaking
Name four groups that were probably part of the upper class.
True or False. The Puritans believed that if the family did not function properly neither would the church or state.
True
What church was strongest in the southern cities?
Anglicans
What was a grammar school.
A more advanced elementary school.
What was the Great Awakening?
A time for revival for America.
What were indentured servants?
people who gained passage to America in return worked four to seven years.
List three roles in a colonial household.
The men would provide the money.
The women were expected to watch the kids,make dinner,teach the kids ect.
How were pastors in southern churches paid
tobacco taxes, and wedding or funeral
Small schools that widows ran were called what?
Dame Schools
Who was probably one the greatest preachers during the great awakening?
Samuel Davies
What was the Middle class?
People who were neither wealthy or poor.
Why were slave families different than free families?
Slave families depended on their owners for everything.
What was the Half-Way Covenant?
It excluded unbelievers from the church.
Where did the first salves arrive in America?
Jamestown
What was Enlightenment?
A movement believed that science was the only way to find truth.
What were redemptiors
People who came from colonial Europe and brought their families and possessions.
What did Christopher Sauer do?
Write the first German Bible in America.
Each pastor in the southern colonies served a church in a neighborhood called a______________
Parish
When did the first slaves arrive in America?
1619
What was Unitarianism?
A moment that denied that doctrine of the Trinity.