| A | B |
|---|
| voting | political right enjoyed by landowners |
| middle class | social class that most colonists belonged to |
| farm wives | most white women |
| a trade | blacksmith, carpenter, silversmith, etc. |
| could not own property without husband's permission | a right, besides voting, denied to women |
| apprentice | a boy who learned a trade from an experienced craftsman |
| to understand the Bible | reason most colonial children were taught to read |
| "dame schools" | where women taught the alphabet and used the Bible to teach reading |
| private tutors or schools | where most wealthy children learned reading, writing, and arithmetic |
| religion | emphasized in colonial textbooks |
| almanac | type of literature that included a calendar, weather predictions, star charts, etc. |
| captivity narrative | type of literature where a colonist captured by Native Americans describes living among them |
| Great Awakening | Religious movement during the 1730s and 1740s |
| Jonathan Edwards | a Great Awakening preacher who gave terrifying sermons |
| Princeton and Brown | colleges founded to train ministers |
| George Whitefield | minister who raised funds to start a home for orphans |
| equality and right to challenge authority | ideas encouraged by the Great Awakening |
| Enlightenment | movement that emphasized reason and science |
| Benjamin Franklin | famous enlightenment thinker |
| Europe | where the Enlightenment began |
| John Locke | argued that people have natural rights of life, liberty, and property |
