Ch. 3 Part 1 Reading Questions pp. 43 –to p. 52 “seeds”
1 p43 From what colony is the man who gives the opening quote from?
Look up the term (internet)“Praying Towns”as it applies to New England…in the 17th century…Identify it here:
2 Map p46 –
-title?
- How many Puritans come to New England?
3 p48 -Statue of Whom?
- Where is it Today?
- Why is this Ironic?
4 Map p49 **** The ______was the “hub” of New England. All earlier colonies grew into it. All later colonies in New England grew out of it.
5 Makers of America******* p.50-51 HUGE---for an essay
Map p 50 – Where? Are the common lands smaller or larger than the private lands?
Portrait p. 50 – How Old is the Woman in the Portrait? How many descendants?
- What three (3) things spark the 1st major migration to the New World?
-What fraction of those earliest settlers to Virginia and Maryland Indentured Servants?
-What % of them die during their period of servitude?
- What are “Freedom Dues?”
-How many migrants move to the Mass. Bay Colony between 1629 -1642?
-What Two (2) things are they fleeing from?
-NE Puritans migrated in ______and in many cases ______were transported to America.
- New England Towns, politically, were known for their fierce ______.
6 Engraving p52 –
-Title?
- What tribe were the NEers fighting against?
- 300 ______, ______, and ______were slaughtered?
- What was the name of the final Indian war in New England?
READING QUESTIONS
INTRO
7 What is the primary shaper of the earliest New England settlements?
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION PORDUCES PURITANISM
8 Martin Luther stated that the ______alone was the source of God’s word?
9 John Calvin’s book that inspired the creation of the English Pilgrims and Puritans?
10 Define the following in the context of the reading?
Predestination-
The “Elect?”
Conversion Experience
Visible Saint
11 What aspect of the Church of England did Puritans want to see removed?
12 Only whom did the most zealous Puritans believe should be admitted to Church Membership?
13 Separatists Puritans became harassed by King James I due to his belief that they were questonsing his right to rule – they became known as ______
THE PILGRIMS END THEIR PILGRIMAGE AT PLYMOUTH
14 Where do these Separatist Pilgrims intend to go in America? Where do they end up?
15 What do these Pilgrims write and agree to before leaving the ship ---not a written constitution but—a precedent for the future of majority rule, for sure?
16 What soon do these Pilgrims do politically that is known as a “vital laboratory of Liberty?”
17 What three (3) products economically sustain this tiny Pilgrim colony?
18 Who wrote, “Of Plymouth Plantation,” and was elected Governor of this colony 30 times in annual elections?
19 How many settlers total lived in this tiny colony of Pilgrims in 1691?
20 In 1691, this tiny colony merges with what much larger colony?
THE BAY COLONY COMMONWEALTH
21 How were the Puritans of the Bay Colony more moderate than the Pilgrim Separatists when it came to their view of the Church of England?
22 In 1629 Charles I dismisses Parliament and encourages the persecution of Puritans—this began the
______that lasts from 1629 -1642.
23 The name of this new colony ?
24 The “Hub” (city) of their colony?
25 How many people come alone in 1630? How many total come in the 1630s?
26 Who becomes the colony’s 1st Governor and serves for 19 years?
27 What three (3) economic activities dominated the Bay Colony?
28 The Bay colony believed it had a “covenant” with God – write the quote that symbolized this agreement? ************************************ who said this?
BUILDING THE BAY COLONY***** ALL IMPORTANT****
29 Who had the “franchise” (vote)? What fraction of the total population could vote?
30 In Town Government, who could participate? How did they vote?
31 “If the people be governors, who shall be governed.” WHO SAID THIS ---
32 IS THE BAY COLONY A DEMOCRACY?
33 What was the whole purpose of Gov’t in the Bay Colony?
34 BOTH ______& ______-______PAID A MANDATORY TAX TO THE “ESTABLISHED” CHURCH.
35 The power of the preacher was not absolute… the Congregation had the power to do what three (3) things AND Clergymen were barred from holding political office a kind of early limited ______of Church and ______.
36 NEers serious commitment to work is called the protestant ______and it has had a HUGE influence on our Unique American Identity.
37 Puritans even legislate MORAL BEHAVIOR, e.g., in Conn. these laws were called ______and for example….forbade kissing in Public
TROUBLE IN THE BIBLE COMMONWEALTH
38 What group of religious dissenters are fined, flogged, banished, and even a few hanged?
39 What woman claimed that the truly saved need not to bother to obey the law of God or Man –ANTONOMIANISM – and is banished for her opposition in 1638?
40 What Salem minister is also banished due to his opposition to the colony’s forcible taking of land from the Native Americans, their treatment of Native Americans, and he denied the authority of the Civil Government to regulate Religious behavior?
41 The 1st Baptist Church in America is founded by whom and where?
42 This new colony had complete ______of ______?
43 A statue of the “______” stands today on the dome of the statehouse in Providence, Rhode Island.
NEW ENGLAND SPREADS OUT
44 What river valley becomes the focus of the Westward Expansion of the Puritans in 1635 when Hartford colony is founded by Thomas Hooker?
45 What is the 1st MODERN WRITTEN CONSTITUTION IN AMERICAN HISTORY CALLED ---IT GOVERNS THIS NEW COLONY AND ALSO BECOMES ITS STATE CONSTITUTION LATER?
46 Maine; a fishing colony, remains a part of which colony until 1820?
47 The last NE colony founded was actually separated from the Bay colony in 1679 by the King ---The “Granite State,” it is called later ______.
PURITANS V. INDIANS*****
48 What tribe and two (2) leaders help celebrate the 1st Thanksgiving in 1621 @ the tiny Plymouth colony?
49 In 1637, war with the ______tribe leads to the ______river massacre.
50 Which tribe allies with the Puritans in the above massacre?
51 After 40 years of peace with Natives in NE…in 1675, Metacom, called ______(name of the Spanish King which they hated) forged a Pan Indian Alliance in an attempt to wipe out ALL OF THE NEW ENGLAND SETTLEMENTS…KILL THEM ALL.
52 How many NE towns were attacked by Metacom? How many towns were completely destroyed?
53 ______slowed the western march of the English in NE for decades, but was the final blow to the Natives there who thereafter were of little trouble.
END YOUR READING AT --- “SEEDS OF COLONIAL UNITY”