T2L6 Colonial Society Vocabulary

The highest social class in the English colonies.

• Gullah

• Enlightenment

• high class

• gentry

In English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some tradespeople.

• gentry

• apprentice

• middle class

• slaves

A combination of English and West African languages spoken by African Americans in South Carolina and Georgia.

• Gullah

• dialect

• Enlightenment

• broken English

A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s.

• Reformation

• Protestant

• Catholicism

• The Great Awakening

A person who learns a trade of craft from a master.

• secretary

• apprentice

• trainee

• fledgling

A school run by women, usually in their own homes.

• learning lab

• elementary school

• dame school

• college

The movement in Europe in the 1600 and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason.

• The Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

• The Learning of the Colonies

• Gullah

The act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person's reputation.

• slander

• libel

• toleration

• plagerism

Willing to accept beliefs that are different from your own.

• tolerant

• liberal

• libel

• Catholic

A belief held without proof.

• tolerant

• disbelief

• measurement

• assumption