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| Massachusetts | Set up the first public schools |
| Harvard | In 1636 Massachusetts set up our nation's first college called... |
| Yale | In 1701 Connecticut opened its first college. |
| College of William and Mary | Founded 1693 in Virginia |
| apprentice | young boy of 12 or 13 who learned a trade from a master craftsman |
| Enlightenment | Period in the 1700's when reason and logic was used to find out how the world worked. |
| Great Awakening | 1730's and 1740's religious movement |
| Ben Franklin | public servant, inventor, scientist, writer |
| contributions of Ben Franklin | cobblestone streets, police force, fire company, first lending library |
| Jonathan Edwards | New England preacher who set off the Great Awakening in the colonies |
| inventions of Ben Franklin | bifocals, Franklin stove, lightening rod |
| gentry | top of colonial society |
| Sir Isaac Newton | English scientist who led the Enlightenment age with his studies on the laws of nature |
| first public schools | schools in Massachusetts supported by taxes |
