Jigsaw Notes pg. 128-132
Puritan Colonies in New England
Directions: Please only answer the questions in your section. Make sure you completely understand your assigned questions as you will be explaining them to other students.
I) Massachusetts (label settlement on map)
1)What were Puritans in England doing?
2)King Charles I felt threatened by the Puritans, what did he do?
3)With King Charles I’s actions, what did many Puritans decide to do?
4)What is the Massachusetts Bay Company?
5)What was the company’s goal?
II) The Great Migration
6)What two goals did the Puritans have for their “city upon the hill?”
7)What major difference was there between their colony and that of Jamestown and Plymouth?
8)Why are the years between 1630 and 1640 known as the Great Migration?
9)Were all these people puritans? If not, who else was coming?
10)Originally who made the decisions for the Massachusetts Bay Company?
11)As the colony grew in population, a bicameral legislature was needed, please define bicameral-
III) Dissent Leads to Expansion
12)As group 2 learned, not all people in Massachusetts were Puritan. What conflicts would arise b/c of this?
13)Why did Roger Williams break away?
14)What colony would Williams start? (label settlement on map)
15)What promise did Williams make to his colonists?
16)Who is Anne Hutchinson?
17)Why did Hutchinson get in trouble with the Puritan Church?
IV) Connecticut (label settlement on map)
18)Why did Puritans begin to move into Connecticut?
19)What was the key belief of Thomas Hooker in Connecticut’s Fundamental Orders?
20)Some Puritans move north of Massachusetts, how would New Hampshire be officially established? (label New Hampshire settlement on Map)
21)Why did the Puritans not feel guilty of taking land from the Indians?
22)What was King Phillip’s war? What sparked the fighting?
23)What was the end result of the war?