Upper classes in the colonies also known as
Aristocrats
Expected to provide financially for the family
Men
Ran homes by preparing food sewing and working around the farm and house
Women
Had to complete household chores
Girls
Chose occupation by age 14
Boys
Young slave children left in care of..
Elderly women
Schools operated by single women or widows
Dame schools
To learn to read students used
Hornbooks
Massachusetts passed this act requiring schools of a certain size to appoint a school master
Old deleted Satan act
Grammar schools created by
Churches
Wealthy people in the south hired. Blank. To live with them and teach their children
Tutors
The first institution of higher learning in the colonies was
Harvard
Was founded after the great awakening to replace the lost spiritual emphasis of Harvard
Yale
Only college in the south for many years
College of William and mary
Instead of going to school some young people became Blank. To learn a trade
Apprentices
Founded log college
William tennet
Preached sinners in the hands of an angry God
Jonathan Edward’s
English preacher of the great awakening
George Whitefeild
Prominent southern preacher of the Great awakening
Samuel Davies
Devoted his short life to misssion work among the Indians
David brainerd
