Colonial Education
What was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies?
What group was the official religion of every southern colony?
Anglicans
Who was expected to provide financially for their family?
Men
Who ministered to the Indians before dying at age 29?
David Brainerd
In the southern colonies, plantation owners hired who to live with them and teach their children?
Tutors
What were schools taught by widows or single women in their homes called?
What group supported missions to Indians and slaves?
Moravians
Who ran the homes and prepared meals, sewed, and worked on the farm?
Women
Who founded the Log College to train ministers?
William Tennent
Boys would choose an occupation by this age
14
What college was founded by Puritans who felt Harvard had drifted from strong religious teachings?
Yale
Who denied belief in the Trinity?
Unitarians
What title was given to members of the upper class?
Aristocrats
Who was an English evangelist who led the Great Awakening?
George Whitefield
Middle Colony school were generally organized by
Churches
What was the paddle-like board with printed sheet used for reading practice called?
What type of churches allowed members a voice in operations?
Congregationists
Title given to someone who is learning a trade under an expert.
Apprentice
Who preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Jonathon Edwards
Upper class typically consisted of tradesmen, merchants, politicians and _______
clergy
What law required schools to prevent Satan from leading people away from God?
Old Deluder Satan Act
Who believes that God created a perfect world but rarely intervene and human affairs?
Deists
Indentured Servants would be given this on completion of service. (new suit, tools, money, possibly land.)
Freedom Dues
prominent southern preacher of the Great Awakening
Samuel Davies
Most early colleges in the colonies were established to train what profession?
Ministers