Chapter 4- Section 5
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8th grade social studies - the american nation
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 gentry | highest social class in the 13 english colonies |
| middle class | a social class underneath the gentry in the colonies which was made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people and wealthy farmers. |
| indentured servant | Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America. |
| Great Awakening | Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established. |
| public school | School supported by taxes - in the New England Colonies. |
| tutor | private teacher - in the Southern Colonies. |
| apprentice | A person who works for another in order to learn a trade. |
| dame school | School run by a woman, usually in her own home, for girls. |
| Enlightenment | movement during the 1700's that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society |
| libel | written untruths that are harmful to someone's reputation. |
| gullah | language developed by African workers so white masters could not understand them, hybrid of English and African, culturallly a connection to Africa. |
| Jonathan Edwards | The most outstanding preacher of the Great Awakening. He was a New England Congregationalist who attacked the new doctrines of easy salvation for all. He preached anew the traditional ideas of Puritanism related to sovereignty of God, predestination, and salvation by God's grace alone. He had vivid descriptions of Hell that terrified listeners. |
| George Whitefield | one of the preachers of the Great Awakening; known for his talented voice inflection, known to bring many a person to their knees |
| Benjamin Franklin | An outstanding enlightenment figure who embraced the nothion of obtaining truth through experimentation and reasoning. |
| John Locke | an Enlightenment thinker who believed knowledge was gained through observing and experimenting. He influenced our Founding Fathers. |
| Peter Zenger | attacked royal governors with his newspaper, NY Weekly Journal, establish the right of free press by winning a court case. |
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