History 8 - Topic 2 - Lesson 2.6-2.7

the top colonial social class including wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, lawyers, government officials

• gentry

• middle class

• indentured servants

• tradespeople

a class in the English colonies that included skilled crafts workers, farmers, and some trades people

• gentry

• middle class

• indentured servants

• migrant workers

a language spoken by enslaved Africans that was a mixture of English and West African languages

• Patois
• Pidgin
• Gullah
• Creole

a religious revival that swept through the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s

• Great Awakening
• Great Revival

• Religious Awakening

• Protestant Revival

willingness to accept beliefs that are not your own

• Indifference
• Racism

• Close-mindedness
• Tolerant

a person who wished to learn a trade or craft by working for a master craftsman for a period of time

• trainee
• intern
• journeyman
• apprentice

a private school for girls run by women in their own homes

• apprentice school

• dame school

• girls school

• dormitory

a belief held without proof

• assumption

• value

• emotion

• enlightenment

the movement in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason to study laws that governed human behavior

• The Renaissance

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

• The Slave Codes

the English economic belief that its colonies should benefit the home country

• Mercantilism

• Colonialism
• Feudalism
• Capitalism