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Miscellaneous
100
wrote the Blue-Backed Speller
Noah Webster
100
people often treated as pagans by Protestant colonists
Jews
100
What "book" did colonial children use to help them learn the alphabet and other simple lessons
hornbook
100
denominational name that described New England Puritans
Congregationalists
100
In an ideal colonial family, which parent played a stronger role?
father
200
started a college in a log cabin
William Tennent
200
were supervised by commissaries sent by the Bishop of London
Anglicans
200
What was the first institution for higher learning in the colonies?
Harvard College
200
the movement of the 1700s that exalted rational thinking and critical reasoning
Enlightenment
200
Where did people in colonial America usually learned Greek, Latin, and natural philosophy
grammar school
300
devoted missionary to the Indians
David Brainerd
300
members of a religion especially strong among some American intellectuals
Unitarians
300
Under what system did young men in the colonies learn a trade?
apprenticeship
300
This type of people, including the Hancocks and Faneuils, made up the colonial upper class
aristocrats
300
What English preacher spoke to large outdoor crowds during the Great Awakening?
George Whitefield
400
Virginia preacher during the Great Awakening
Samuel Davies
400
German Protestants who settled in some of the colonies
Dunkers
400
What were schools that met in the homes of widows or single ladies called?
dame schools
400
This philosophy asserted that God created the universe and then stepped aside to let the laws of nature function without His intervention
Deism
400
This was the most tolerant colony toward various religions
Pennsylvania
500
pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts
Jonathan Edwards
500
German settlers who followed the early reformer John Huss
Moravians
500
What act provided for local education in Massachusetts
Old Deluder Satan Act
500
This servant came from Europe with his family, hoping to find a relative or friend to pay their passage.
redemptioner
500
Which colony lead in the provision of education for its children?
Massachusetts