| A | B |
|---|
| Puritans | led the way in American education |
| Dame schools | small private education; teachers women |
| MA School Law (1642) | in a town of more than 50 homes, you need a teacher |
| Harvard | religious University |
| Boston Latin School | 1st public school in colonies |
| MA | had 1st school in the N.Amer. colonies |
| Curriculum of Dame Schools | read/write, math, religion |
| Colonial learning materials | hornbook, New England primer |
| Apprentice | trainee for a master craft |
| Master | provides apprentice with tools, clothes, shelter, food and basic education |
| Land | determined class in America |
| Artisans/small farmers | most of the English who came to America |
| High class | wealthy merchants, land ownders, gov't/church officials |
| upper middle class | trades people, small farmers |
| lower middle class | renters, unskilled workers |
| low class | slaves, indentured servants |
| seaports | city based on trade and shipbuilding |
| Things married women couldn't do | own property, have a voice in government |
| property qualification | own land |
| two houses in Parliament | House of Lords, House of Commons |
| council | serve as advisors and judges in the colony |
| governor | oversaw trade in the colony |
| assemblies | elected by colonists, create laws and taxes |
| Jill of all trades | woman who could do everything |
| Royal colony | a colony directly controlled by the King |
| proprietory | a colony owned by a private citizen or group |
| CT and RI | two "self-governing" colonies |
| reasons to sing slave songs | hope of freedom, runaway plans, passing time, express feelings |
| Triangular Trade | continual path of ship routes between Americas Africa and Europe |
| 10-12 million | number of slaves sent to America |
| Where were slaves sent | 5%America, 50%Caribbean Islands, 33%Brazil |
| "harvesting" | collect slaves in Africa |
| Middle Passage | slaves moved from Africa to Americas across the Atlantic |
| "seasoned" | slaves prepared for auction |
| types of slaves | house or field |
| slave codes | special rules for slaves |
| Pennsylvania Gazette | Ben Franklin's newspaper |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | Ben Franklin's Almanac |
| contents of almanac | planting season, weather, moon information, calendar, random facts, proverbs |
| Proverbs | a short witty saying that holds wisdom or moral lessons |
| Franklin inventions | lightning rod, Franklin stove, bifocals, one-armed desk |
| groups started by Franklin | Amer. Philosophical Society, Univ. of PA, Postmaster, Phila. Fire Dept., 1st city hospital |
| Age of Reason | other name for the Enlightenment |
| Galileo | invented the telescope |
| Sir Isaac Newton | laws of gravity |
| frontier | western edge of settlement |
| squatter | people settle on land they don't own |
| Yankee Ingenuity | clever and creative ways to solve problems |
| orrery | model of sun and planets |
| David Rittenhouse | developed a model of the sun and planets |
| John Bartram | study and collected plants |
| products from Africa | enslaved people, gold, pepper |
| products from Caribbean | money, molasses, sugar, fruit |
| products from British colonies | rum, iron, gunpowder, cloth, tools, tobacco, rice, indigo |
| products from Europe | manufactured goods, clothes, furniture, luxuries |
| Enlightenment | idea to improve society through logic and reason |
