Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700 Homework Packet

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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700 Homework Packet

The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism

1. What did the “Protestant Reformation” challenge?

Martin Luther:

John Calvin:

2. What did Calvin argue in Institutes of the Christian Religion? What was God according to Calvin?

3. Describe “predestination” according to Calvin.

4. Why did the “elect” need to act like “visible saints”?

5. What effect did King Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church have on English religious reformers?

6. What changes did the Puritans want to see in England?

7. According to the Puritans who should be allowed in the Church of England?

Separatists:

King James I:

The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth

8. Why did the first Separatists depart to the New World?

9. Where did the Mayflower actually land and how people survived the journey?

10. How did the Pilgrims go against the Virginia Company?

11. What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact? How was this a step towards self-government?

12. What challenges did the Pilgrims experience upon arrival?

13. How did the Pilgrims eventually survive on Plymouth Rock?

14. Who was William Bradford and what did he fear could happen to the Pilgrims?

The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth

15. How did Moderate Pilgrims hope to reform the Church of England?

16. Why did the non-Separatist Puritans leave England?

17. How did the Massachusetts Bay Colony use their charter?

18. What was a difference between the Plymouth Rock pilgrims and the Massachusetts Bay colony settlers?

19. What was the “Great Migration”? Where did most European immigrants settle during this time period?

20. Who was John Winthrop and how did he help the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

21. Explain the meaning of this quote. “We shall be as a city upon a hill”.

Building the Bay Colony

22. Who wasn’t allowed to vote under the Congressional Church?

23. How was the Congressional Church a democracy? Why didn’t Winthrop want it to become a democracy?

24. How did religious leaders hold power over the citizens of Massachusetts?

John Cotton:

25. What power did Puritan citizens have over religious leaders?

26. What was the “Protestant ethic”?

Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth

27. Why were the Quakers persecuted in the Bay Colony?

Anne Hutchinson:

28. What was the concept of “antinomianism”?

29. What eventually happened to Anne Hutchinson?

30. How did Roger Williams challenge the Bay Colony? (Offer two examples)

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The Rhode Island “Sewer”

31. What type of church did Roger Williams establish? What kinds of people were accepted in his church?

32. What made Williams church liberal?

33. Why was Rhode Island considered a sewer?

New England Spreads Out

Reverend Thomas Hooker:

34. What were the Fundamental Orders? What did they establish?

35. Why was New Haven founded?

36. What colony was Maine made a part of?

37. What economy did the New Hampshire colony have?

Puritans Versus Indians

38. Why weren’t the natives in the New England area able to fight off the colonists?

Squanto:

Massasoit:

39. What lead to the Pequot War? What was the end result of the war?

40. Who was Metacom (a.k.a King Philip) and how did he attempt to get rid of the English colonists?

41. What were the long-term effects of King Philips War?

Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence

42. Why was the New England Confederation formed?

43. Why weren’t Maine and Rhode Island asked to be a part of the Confederation?

44. Why is the Confederation considered a milestone in colonial history?

45. Why had colonists been left alone by the British Crown?

Charles II:

46. How was the Massachusetts Bay Colony punished for not following Royal orders?

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Andros Promote the First American Revolution

47. What was the Dominion of New England and why was it created?

48. Why didn’t colonists like the English Navigation laws? How did they get around them?

49. Who was Sir Edmund Andros? Why didn’t colonists like him?

50. What event ended the Dominion of New England?

51. What changed after William and Mary took over the British crown? (2 examples)

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Old Netherlanders at New Netherland

52. Who did the Netherland win their independence from?

53. What are did the Dutch colonize?

Dutch East India Company:

Henry Hudson:

West India Company:

54. What island did the West India Company buy? Why was this a good buy?

55. Who established the New Amsterdam Colony?

56. What were “patroonships”? Why were they prestigious?

Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors

57. What difficulties did the Dutch settlers face?

58. How did Wall Street get its name?

59. Why did the New England Confederation want to attack New Netherland?

60. Where did the Swedes settle? What eventually happened to their settlement?

Peter Stuyvesant:

Dutch Residents in New York

61. How were the Dutch saved in New Amsterdam?

62. What did the English gain from the Dutch?

63. Why didn’t New York grow as fast as other colonies?

64. What contributions did the Dutch make to American society?

Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania

65. Why were the Religious Society of Friends nicknamed the Quakers?

66. What characteristics of the Quakers made people dislike them?

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William Penn:

67. Why did William Penn found Pennsylvania?

68. What types of people migrated to Pennsylvania?

Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors

69. How did Penn treat the natives?

70. What eventually ended the fair relations with the Natives in Pennsylvania?

71. Identify characteristics unique to the Pennsylvania.

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72. What eventually happened to Penn?

73. Who founded Delaware and why was it created?

The Middle War in the Middle Colonies

74. Name the middle colonies.

75. Identify characteristics unique to the Middle Colonies.

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makers of america: the english

Questions for Class Discussion

1. In what areas of their lives did the Puritans seem to draw on their old local English traditions, and in what areas did they draw on their religion? In what ways did the two conflict, and in what ways did they support one another?

2. How does this material fit with the idea of America as a “new world” different from England? Was there a fundamental difference between those Englishmen who essentially tried to re-create their old way of life and those who saw life in America as a radical departure? What tensions might have resulted between these two groups?

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