A | B |
George Whitefield | English preacher during Great Awakening |
grammar school | learned greek, Latin, & natural philosophy |
John Copley | early Am. painter |
Gilbert Stuart | early Am. painter |
John Trumbull | early Am. painter |
Harvard | first college in the colonies |
Harvard | named for a young minister |
Harvard | Latin used in schoolbooks and class lectures |
Moravians | settled in N. Carolina and Pennsylvania |
Moravians | involved in missionary activity |
Moravians | did not believe in fighting |
Education in So.Colonies | often provided by private tutors |
Great Awakening | Missionary works begun |
Great Awakening | desire for political freedom grew |
Great Awakening | Colleges were begun to train pastors & missionaries |
Duncan Phyfe | made fine furniture |
Deism | God created Universe , then stepped aside |
Anglican Church | official church in the southern colonies |
pewter | alloy of tin, copper, and lead |
Congregationalists | New England Puritans |
the Enlightenment | movement featuring rational thinking & critical reasoning |
Halfway Covenant | agreement allowing children of Puritans to become church members |
hornbook | helped children learn alphabet & simple lessons |
apprenticeship | system helping young men learn a trade |
David Brainerd | missonary to the Indians |
church membership | qualification for voting in elections |
dame schools | schools meeting in homes of widows or single ladies |
Jonathan Edwards | well-known pastor from Mass. ; leader in Great Awakening |
Samuel Davies | Virginia preacher during Great Awakening |
Paul Revere | noted colonial silversmith |
William Tennent | stated a college in a log cabin |
Seth Thomas | colonial clock maker |
Noah Webster | wrote Blue-Backed Speller |
Anglicans | supervised by commissaries |
Dunkers | German group with unusual practices |
Huguenots | French Protestants |
Jews | people treated as pagans |
Unitarians | strong religion among some Am. intellectuals |