Settlers in South Carolina learned to raise this plant that was used to make blue dye.
Indigo
The top of society that included the wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, successful lawyers, and royal officials.
Gentry
A religious revival, or movement, that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
Great Awakening
Where was the first public school founded?
New England
This English scientist explained the laws of gravity.
Isaac Newton
Oglethorpe wanted the new colony to be place where ___________, or people who owed back money that owed money that they could not pay back to make a fresh start.
debtors
West African Language
Gullah
This preacher helped set off the Great Awakening
Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children in_____________
private schools
Enlightenment
The belief that one race is superior to another
Racism
Farmers who worked their own land, skilled craft workers, and some tradespeople.
Middle Class
This English minister drew huge crowds to outdoor religious meetings cause the Great Awakening to spread like wildfire.
George Whitefield
Boys whose parents wished them to learn a trade or craft serves as _________ so they could learn the trade or craft.
apprentices
The act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a persons reputation.
Libel
Colonists passed laws that set out rules for slaves behavior and denied enslaved people basic human rights. These __________ treated enslaved Africans and African Americans not as human rights but as property.
slave codes
Lower class workers that signed contracts to work without wages for a period of four to seven years for anyone who would pay their ocean passage to the Americas.
Indentured Servant
The Anglicans
Private schools run by women in their own homes that only girls could attend.
Dame schools
Two colonists that had a major impact on the enlightenment.
John Locke and Benjamin Franklin
A law that provides religious freedom for all Christians.
Act of Toleration
Whats clues can we find about colonial lives in artwork such as paintings?
How people dressed, what their tastes were like, and how their families lived.
It created a more democratic society where colonists felt more independent and free to challenge authorities.
Harvard College opened in 1633 with 10 students with the goal of....
educating future ministers.
The name of the first regular weekly newspaper in the colonies.
Boston News Letter