Social Classes
The people of the upper classes were called?
Artistrocrats
Definition: A houshold where there fathers are the head over everyone.
Patriarchy
Schools in early America were taught by widows and single women in their homes. What were the schools called?
Dame Schools
Congregationalists used to be called what?
Puritans
They believed that members of the Church should be able to have a say in what happens with the church.
This period of revival began with Theodorus Frelinghusen. He preached in Dutch Reformed Churches in what colony?
New Jersey
The lower classes were made up of two groups of people who owned no land and had few material possessions, servants and __________.
Slaves
According to the Puritans, the basic unit of early American society was the family. If the family did not function properly, than neither would government (society) nor the ___________
Church.
God intends the family to be the foundation on which society is built.
The board in the shape of a paddle, would often have the alphabet, list of vowels, syllables to sound out, or the Lord's Prayer. What is this item called?
Hornbook
In order to keep people in the church, Puritans created a doctrine where parents who are unbelievers cannot partake in the Lord's Supper, but their children can be baptized into the church. What is this doctrine called?
Half-Way Covenant
What preacher had a powerful voice that was typically not allowed to preach from the pulpit because he would create crowds of 20,000 people just to hear him speak.
George Whitefield
What class of people made up the core of colonial society?
The middle class
They were the tradesmen, small farmers, clergymen, and shop keepers.
For women in the household, what was an all day job for them if they had a family?
feeding/cooking
The midday meal was their main daily job.
The Old Deluder Satan Act in Massachusetts required towns with 50 or more families to appoint a schoolmaster to teach children what?
how to read and write
Each Anglican Church in the Southern Colonies served a whole neighborhood or area called what?
Parish
The Anglican Church enjoyed being an established religion, the government paid the pastor's salary from taxes, and received a house.Who wrote the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?"
Jonathon Edward
The sermon called for people to repent and told them of the judgement of God. The sermon was so moving, that Jonathon Edwards had to stop every few minutes because the cries from the pew drowned out his preaching.
When an indentured servant completed their service, they would receive land and __________ ________, which included a new suit, ax, hoe, and cash.
freedom dues
Parents in early America had to be doctors/nurses, teachers, the church, and the center of both ____________ and social activities
economic
The first college in the British Colonies was
Harvard College.
Located in Cambridge, MA.
One of the biggest contributions to the Moravians played in American history was that they influenced
American church music
Moravians used string, brass, and woodwind instruments.
The Great Awakening had many powerful results that changed the American Colonies forever. However, two of importance to the future of the would be country would be that it made people think about their personal and __________ freedoms
Political freedoms
While people on the social order were able to improve their station in life, slaves and _________ ____________ could not
free blacks
Free blacks had to carry papers around to show proof they were free, and had few chances to own land, vote, get educated, or choose their religion or jobs.
To the Puritans, the chief purpose of marriage was to raise a _________ family.
Godly
Young boys often left their homes and live with someone who would teach them a trade. This is known as
Apprenticeship
Other religious groups were able to establish themselves in the South, but they had to pay taxes to the ________ Church and had to follow certain rules.
Anglican
During the Enlightenment, what philosophy believed that the Bible had to be tested by human reason, and discarded the parts of the Bible that goes against human reason, like miracles?
Deism