Chapter 4 Test Flashcards
The upper class in the colonies
Aristocrats (Mathers, Winthrops, Faneuils, Hancocks)
People who could not afford the whole journey to America and hopefully found a friend or relative to pay the remaining amount or worked for a wealthy colonist for a few years to repay them
Redemtioners
People who gained their passage to America in return for 4-7 years of labor
Indentured Servants
The ideal family where the father was the head over everyone, including the servants
Patriarchy
A small school ran by a single woman in her home
Dame School
A school set up by a village to teach their children’s early education
Grammar School
The person who published the “Blue Backed Speller” in 1783
Noah Webster
A board that looked like a paddle that was covered with a printed sheet
Hornbook
The act that required all towns of fifty or more families to appoint a schoolmaster to teach the children to read and write
Old Deluder Satan Act
The first institution of higher learning in Massachusetts
Harvard College
The system to teach trades when young boys leave home and live with someone who knew their chosen trade
Apprenticeship
The people who believed that the members of church congregations should have a say in the church
Congregationalists
When many people in Massachusetts were accused of witchcraft
Salem Witch Trials
The Puritan church’s compromise that excluded unbelievers from the Lord’s Supper, but that the unbelievers’ children could be baptized into the church.
Half-Way Covenant
The established church while the Puritan church lost control
Anglican Church
