The Southern Colonies
Society in Colonial Times
A New Religious Movement
Colonial Schools & Colleges
A New World of Ideas
100

Settlers in South Carolina learned to raise this plant that was used to make blue dye. 

Indigo

100

The top of society that included the wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, successful lawyers, and royal officials. 

Gentry

100

A religious revival, or movement, that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.

Great Awakening

100

Where was the first public school founded?

New England

100

This English scientist explained the laws of gravity. 

Isaac Newton

200

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

200

West African Language

Gullah

200

This preacher helped set off the Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards
200

Only wealthy families could afford to educate their children in_____________

private schools

200
The movement that aimed to discover the natural laws that governed human behavior. 

Enlightenment

300

The belief that one race is superior to another

Racism

300

Farmers who worked their own land, skilled craft workers, and some tradespeople. 

Middle Class

300

This English minister drew huge crowds to outdoor religious meetings cause the Great Awakening to spread like wildfire. 

George Whitefield 

300

Boys whose parents wished them to learn a trade or craft serves as _________ so they could learn the trade or craft. 

apprentices

300

The act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a persons reputation. 

Libel

400

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

400

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

400
This religious group strongly disagreed with Whitefield. 

The Anglicans

400

Private schools run by women in their own homes that only girls could attend. 

Dame schools

400

Two colonists that had a major impact on the enlightenment.

John Locke and Benjamin Franklin

500

A law that provides religious freedom for all Christians. 

Act of Toleration

500

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. 

500
How did the Great Awakening change how people thought about themselves and their political rights?

It created a more democratic society where colonists felt more independent and free to challenge authorities. 

500

Harvard College opened in 1633 with 10 students with the goal of....

educating future ministers. 

500

The name of the first regular weekly newspaper in the colonies. 

Boston News Letter