4.4-4.5 Flashcards
How did most children learn how to read in the new colonies?
hornbook
what is the most widely used textbook in colonial America?
New England primer
to prepare students for college they went to what kind of private school?
Latin grammar schools
What is the best known of the academies? and who founded it?
Philadelphia Academy, Benjamin Franklin.
many boys in order to receive their education were placed under the authority and care of a master craftsman in order to learn a tradeWhat were they called?
apprentices
what is the first regularly published weekly newspaper in the colonies?
Boston news-letter
what are two ways that Benjamin Franklin helped to spread general knowledge?
public libraries, poor Richards, almanac
Who is known as the greatest portraitist of the colonial era?
John Singleton Copley
first professional musician and composer that was born in America?
William Billings
Who became the first American member of the royal society of London?
John Winthrop Jr
Who helped to introduced the smallpox inoculation in America?
Cotton mather
what kind of colony was kept under the direct authority of the king?
Royal
what kind of colonies were granted by the king to individual proprietors or owners?
proprietary colonies
what colonies were granted charters, allowing them to rule them selves?
self — governing
And each colony, except Pennsylvania the legislative body was what?
Bicameral
