The Structure of Colonial Society
Massachusetts accepted several types of Protestants, but excluded ________ and _______.
Who are non-Christians and Catholics?
The overwhelming majority of colonists belonged to various Protestant ______.
What are denominations?
______ not only provided food and lodging for travelers, but also served as a social center where news was exchanged and politics discussed.
What is a Tavern?
People had neither the time nor the resources to pursue leisure activities or create works of _____ and ______.
What is art and literature?
Americans felt attracted to a European movement in literature and philosophy that is known as the ________.
What is the Enlightenment?
The government of each colony had a _______ assembly that was elected by eligible voters.
What is representative?
______ were dominant in Virginia and some of the other southern colonies.
Who are the Anglicans?
A _____ system using horses on overland routes and small ships on water routes was operating both within and between the colonies.
What is postal?
As fear of American Indians faded, people displayed their prosperity by adopting architectural and decorate styles from _______.
What is England?
What is human reason?
All of the colonies permitted the practice of different ______, but with varying degrees of freedom.
What are religions?
Congregationalist ministers were criticized by other Protestants as domineering and for preaching an overly complex _____.
What is doctrine?
The industrious descendants of the ______ profited from logging, shipbuilding, fishing, trading, and rum-distilling.
Who are the Puritans?
What is itinerant?
A major influence on the Enlightenment and on American thinking was the work of _____ _____, 17th century English philosopher and political theorist.
Who is John Locke?
Most _____ had a higher standard of living than did most Europeans.
Who are the colonists?
Churches financed through the government are known as _____ _______.
What are established churches?
_______ were self-sufficient, they grew their own food and had their own slave craftworkers.
What are plantations?
The first colonial colleges were _____, meaning they promoted the doctrines of a particular religious group.
What is sectarian?
What are rights?
Both Africans and non-English immigrants brought ______ _______ that would modify the majority of culture.
What are diverse influences?
In Virginia, all tax support of the Anglican Church ended shortly after the ______.
What is the Revolution?
To provide currency for domestic trade, many colonies issued paper money, but this often led to ______.
What is inflation?
The poetry of _____ ______ is noteworthy both for her triumph over slavery and quality of her verse.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
He argued that sovereignty ultimately resides with the people rather than with the _____.
What is a state?