4.4 Colonial Culture

Young children learned how to read and write in ___ schools.

• Grammar
• Latin
• dame
• middle

Although usually only children of the wealthy were educated in the South, some children attended ___ schools.

• dame
• Grammar
• old field
• Latin

Which colony was the first to pass laws about education?

• Virginia
• Rhode Island
• Georgia
• Massachusetts

The first schools were supported with ___ money.

• public
• private
• both

After the passing of Slave Codes, slaves no longer would learn how to read.

• True
• False

Some boys went to Grammar schools to prepare for ___.

• high school
• college

The Puritans founded Harvard in ___

• 1630
• 1636
• 1693
• 1776

Boys went to college to prepare for the ___.

• medical profession
• legal profession
• ministry
• writing

Who was the first published poet in the colonies?

• Anne Bradstreet
• Phillis Wheatley
• Jonathan Edwards
• George Whitefield

Who was the first African American poet in the colonies?

• Anne Bradstreet
• Phillis Wheatley
• John Locke
• Jonathan Edwards