Chapter 3 pgs. 41-50
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What were the majority of American settlers?
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English
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What were the second largest groups of American settlers?
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Scots-Irish and Germans
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What area in America became known for her numerous churches?
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New England
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What area in America had a great deal of religious diversity?
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middle colonies
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In what colonies did the Anglican church become the official church?
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southern colonies
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What social class included wealthy southern plantation owners, great landholders, prosperous merchants, and professionals?
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aristocracy
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What social class consisted of the small independent farmers, shopkeepers, and skilled craftsmen?
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middle class
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What were the social classes in America based on?
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wealth
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What colonies were called the \"bread colonies\" because they produced an abundance of grain?
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middle colonies
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What were the 3 main crops that plantations grew to export?
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tobacco, indigo, and rice
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What was a small fixed annual fee called that a settler had to pay each year in a propriety colony to own land?
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quitrent
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What was the system called in which a parcel of land was given to each settler or to the one who paid for the settler's passage to the New World?
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head-right system
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What was the first institution of higher learning in British America? It was established by the Puritans in Cambridge in 1636.
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Harvard College
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What required all towns of at least 50 families to hire a teacher to teach their children to read and write and all towns of 100 families or more were required to establish a grammar school?
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Ole` Deluder Satan Act (1647)
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What was the most widely used textbook in colonial America?
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New England Primer
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What was a paddle-shaped board to which was attached a printed sheet containing that alphabet and usually the Lord's Prayer or a scripture verse?
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hornbook
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What was the most famous academy that was founded by Benjamin Franklin and later became the University of Pennsylvania?
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Philadelphia Academy
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Who was Harvard founded by?
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Puritans
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What was founded in Virginia as an Anglican school?
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College of William and Mary
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Who was Yale founded by?
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Congregationalist Puritans
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Who was Princeton founded by?
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Presbyterians
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Who was Columbia University founded by?
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Anglicans
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Who was Brown University founded by?
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Baptists
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Who was Rutgers established by?
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Dutch Reformed
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Who was Dartmouth College established by?
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Congregationalists
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What was the first book printed in the colonies?
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Bay Psalm Book
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Who was called the \"Apostle to the Indians\" and translated the Bible into the language of the Algonquin Indians?
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John Eliot
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Who published an edition of Poor Richard's Almanac every year?
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Benjamin Franklin
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What were the libraries called that only those who contributed to their support could borrow books?
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subscription libraries
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Who were a few men that wrote significant religious dissertations?
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John Cotton, Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker
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What are two examples of men who wrote important treatises or published sermons and tracts?
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Cotton Mather and Johnathan Edwards
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What was America's first regularly published weekly newspaper?
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Boston News-Letter
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What was the first privately published newspaper?
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New-England Courant
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Who was involved in setting the important precedent of freedom of the press?
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John Peter Zenger and Alexander Hamilton
