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42 Cards in this Set
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in the 17th century who had education |
the wealthy |
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who wanted all children to go to school |
Americans in New England |
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in the earliest colonial days, where did education take place? who was responsible for teaching reading and writing? |
in the home. parents |
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in 1642 who passed a law ordering parents to teach their children to read, religion, and laws of the country |
Massachusetts General Court |
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small schools run by widows or single women in their homes |
dame school |
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schools that had hired teachers to take over their children's education |
grammar schools |
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the upper class believed what set them apart from the average class as far as education was concerened |
they learned Greek and Latin and ancient Literature |
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most colonial students learned to read from ? |
hornbook |
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a book that looked much like a paddle and was covered with a printed sheet |
hornbook |
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a law to prevent Satan from keeping people from the knowledge of scripture |
Old Deluder Satan Act |
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What colonies had fewer schools |
the southern colonies had fewer than New England |
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in the middle colonies, most school were organized by whom? |
churches |
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the first institution of higher learning in the colonies |
Harvard College |
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who founded Harvard |
Puritans |
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what college was created with the Puritans felt Harvard was corrupted with liberal ideas |
Yale |
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what was used to teach trades |
apprenticeship |
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America became a place of ? because of the diversity of the people |
religious diversity, freedom of worship |
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most of the Puritans became known as ? |
Congregationalists |
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The Puritians were mostly where |
New England |
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What are some things that the Puritans believed |
members should stay in the church, they were responsible to build a Christian society, society should be based on Biblical teachings |
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one of the most notorious events in the colonies that occured in Salem, Massachusetts. When people behaved weirdly or had seizures, they believed they were ? |
Salem Witch Trials. Witches |
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Pastors wanted to keep unbelievers in the the church. What did they create to do this? what did it do? |
Half Way Covenant. it excluded unbelievers from the Lords Supper but let their children get baptized |
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what was the official church in the Southern Colonies |
Church of England |
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each church served a neighborhood or a ? |
Parish |
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another religious group in the colonies that were followers of the early reformer John Huss |
Moravians |
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the Moravians wanted to be missionaries to whom |
slaves, Indians, and Germans settlers |
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What colony had the greatest religious diversity |
Middle colonies |
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what group settled in the Middle colonies but had limited freedoms |
Jews |
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Why did Jews have limited freedom |
because they did not believe that Jesus is the son of God |
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What place in the middle colonies were most tolerant to other religions |
Pennsylvania, a Quaker colony |
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what religious groups were in the middle colonies |
Anglicans, baptist, Lutherans, dutch |
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what important Jewish family brought important changes |
Levy families |
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a revival that began in the 1720s |
Great Awakening |
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greatest figure of the Great Awakening |
Samuel Davies |
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played a key role in the Great Awakening, pastor of a church in Massachusetts |
Jonathan Edwards |
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an English preacher that often teaches in open fields, he came to America 7 times to preach |
George Whitefield |
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missionary to the Indians |
David Brainerd |
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why was the Great Awakening so important |
many people converted and joined a church, missionaries started helped blacks and Indians, affected higher education, churches became popular, created church and state |
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what type of churches became important |
Baptist Churches |
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what movement had people believing that science and reason are the only reliable way to find truth |
enlightment |
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people who thought that the Bible has to be tested by Human reason, what false philosophy did it come from |
deists. deism |
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what movement denied the doctrine of the Trinity |
Unitarianism |
