Brinkley 345 Answers

1.1: Capitalism Came in the First Ships

Endowed-give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution)

Subordinations- the action or state of subordinating or of being subordinate.

Manorial- (in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.

Outmoded- old-fashioned.

Restive- (of a person) unable to keep still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control, especially because of impatience, dissatisfaction, or boredom.

Ante-bellum- occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.

Bourgeois- of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

Usury- the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.

Ostentation- pretentious and vulgar display, especially of wealth and luxury, intended to impress or attract notice.

Imbibing- absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge).

Social Mobility- as movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between layers or tiers in an open system of social stratification.

Primogeniture- the state of being the firstborn child.

Reactionaries- a conservative person.

Liberals- favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.

Protestant Ethic- work ethic.

Calling- a call or summons.

Visible Elect- Calvin's term for those destined for salvation, regardless of what actions they may commit during their mortal life on earth.

1.2 Were the Puritans “Puritanical”?