A sucessful author, scientist, and founding father best known for his work with electricity
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
The first colonial college
What is Harvard?
100
The colonies were predominatly _________ (religion)
What is Protestant?
100
The two major industries in New England
What is shipbuilding and logging?
100
This preacher travelled around colonial America to preach and sometimes attracted crowds of over 10,000 people. He preached that those who did not believe in Christ would go to Hell.
Who is George Whitefield?
200
A notable Reverend during the first Great Awakening who was known for his fire and brimstone sermons.
Who is Johnathan Edwards?
200
These people accepted the changes in culture in the Great Awakening
What are New Lights?
200
This form of social structure, which includes primogeniture, was found in Europe, but was not prevelent in American colonial society.
What is hereditary aristocracy?
200
By the 1760's, half of this country's world trade was with colonies
What is England?
200
This was a period of religious revivial that led to a change in the way people viewed authority and led colonists to have a nationalistic experience
What is the Great Awakening?
300
A writer who wrote Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
These people rejected the new teachings of the Great Awakening
What are Old Lights?
300
This church was headed by the King of England
What is the Church of England or Anglicans?
300
The main crop of southern farmers
What is tobacco?
300
This state made a law requring towns over 50 families to establish primary schools for boys, and town with over 100 families to establish grammer schools to prepare boys for college.
What is Massachusetts?
400
A newspaper editor charged for slander towards New York's royal governor
Who is John Peter Zenger?
400
The first medical college in the colonies was started by Benjamin Franklin
What is the College of Philadelphia?
400
This part of the country had the first tax supported schools
What is New England?
400
People in the 18th century increasingly started to fill these occupations (Name two)
What are doctors, laywers, ministers and teachers?
400
This was the chief concern of most colonists
What is economic survival?
500
A poet who wrote famous poems while enslaved
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
500
The process by which people can move up the social ladder
What is social mobility?
500
The average wife bore this many children in the colonial era
What is 8?
500
This led to an increased use of slaves
What is a lack of indentured servants?
500
This was a common of all the colonies' political structure