2-6: Colonial Society: 8th

top of the social class

• gentry

• middle class

• lower class

included wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, lawyers, and royal officers

• gentry

• middle class

• lower class

included farmers who worked their own land, skilled craft workers, and some tradespeople

• gentry

• middle class

• lower class

included indentured servants and farmhands

• gentry

• middle class

• lower class

How was life in the country?

• men, women, and children all pitched in to do the work and often worked side by side on their land

• learned trades from others and worked to earn money

• became educated and took jobs such as politicians and surgeons

How was life in the city?

• men, women, and children all pitched in to do the work and often worked side by side on their land

• learned trades from others and worked to earn money

• became educated and took jobs such as politicians and surgeons

Why was art and literature from this time period valuable today?

• it reflected the life and hardships of the people of that time

• it's a great secondary source

• it's a great primary source

• there is plenty to buy and put on your walls

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

• apprentice

• trade

• dame school

• Great Awakening

• Gullah

a religious revival that swept through the land and whose drama/emotion reached people of many backgrounds

• apprentice

• trade

• dame school

• Great Awakening

• Gullah

this encouraged colonists to think more independently and take more control of their government

• apprentice

• trade

• dame school

• Great Awakening

• Gullah