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100
Early colonists were very aware of this...the belief that there were many evidences of God's working in their lives.
What is the supernatural?
100
He wrote the Blue-Backed Speller.
Who is Noah Webster?
100
This colony led the way for educational requirements.
What is Massachusetts?
100
Under this system, young men were able to learn a trade.
What is apprenticeship?
100
This colony/group was the most religiously tolerant.
What is Pennsylvania? OR Who are the Quakers?
200
This religious group was treated as pagans and had their rights limited.
Who are the Jews?
200
He started a college in a log cabin?
Who is William Tennant?
200
These schools met in the homes of widows or single ladies.
What are dame schools?
200
This man was called the "greatest painter ever to work in Colonial America".
Who is John Singleton?
200
This was the name given to New England Puritans.
What is Congregationalists?
300
This religion was especially popular with intellectuals and writers.
What is Unitarianism?
300
He was a devoted missionary to the Indians who died at 29.
Who is David Brainerd?
300
This "book" helped students learn the alphabet and other simple lessons.
What is a hornbook?
300
This man painted the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is on the one dollar bill.
Who is Gilbert Stuart?
300
This movement exalted rational thinking and critical reasoning.
What is Enlightenment?
400
This group was made up of German settlers who followed after John Huss.
Who are the Moravians?
400
He was a preacher in Virginia during the Great Awakening.
Who is Samuel Davies?
400
Students in colonial America usually learned Greek, Latin, and philosophy during these school years.
What is grammar (elementary) school?
400
This product was the "poor man's silver".
What is pewter?
400
What agreement in 1662 allowed the unsaved children of Puritans to become church members.
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
500
This group was made up of French Protestants who settled in some of the colonies.
Who are the Dunkers?
500
He was a pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts?
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
500
Education in the south was primarily provided by these.
Who are private tutors?
500
This man invented a clock made with only wooden pieces.
Who is Eli Terry?
500
This philosophy asserted that God created the universe and then stepped aside to let the laws of nature function without His intervention.
What is Deism?