Bailey Chapter 3 Reading Guide
As you read this chapter, look for how the different settlement patterns led to the creation of greatly divergent societies.
Summarize the course of the Protestant reformation WITHOUT using words – use drawings, diagrams, and symbols (ooo… using a different part of your brain to develop imagery… pedagogy rocks!)
Explain Calvin’s concept of the Elect.
Explain how the Anglican portion of the reformation was different from the Lutheran/Calvinist reformation (I’ll be particularly impressed if you can integrate terms from the class discussion with your reading…)
Draw the continuum of belief in mid 1500s England. Try to do it from memory, but look back at your notes if you must.
Why did the Pilgrims leave Holland? What concerns does this foreshadow in the New World?
Who was Miles Standish?
What is a squatter? How did the term apply to the Pilgrims?
What was the Mayflower Compact?
The book refers to the “exalted” title of Mr. Without explaining what it meant. Luckily for you, Mr. Tueting did in you Mayflower cooperative learning. What does “Mr.” Mean?
To what extent were the first winters’ experiences of the Pilgrims and Jamestown settlers similar? How were their reactions different?
What did the phrase “Beaver and the Bible” signify?
Who was William Bradford? What was his main concern?
Why was does the elevation of William Laud resound so “loudly” in English history?
How did the settlers of Massachusetts Bay’s Bible Commonwealth differ from the Pilgrims?
What was the Great Migration? Do a quick hand sketch of the map and chart.
Who was John Winthrop? Why did he become Gov’nuh?
What did the phrase “City on a Hill” mean to the Puritans? (We’ll come back to this)
How democratic was Massachusetts?
How could a congregation limit the activities of its minister? Draw a connection to the British parliament and crown.
What was the “Protestant work ethic?”
What did the Puritans believe about human nature (you’ll have to infer this)? What did they do about it?
What does “sumptuary” mean? Look it up in the dictionary and explain why the Puritans would use this term for laws repressing behavior.
We generally think of America as being founded on the basis of religious toleration. How did this “toleration” play itself out in the Bay Colony? If the facts do not necessarily support the current public interpretation, what purpose do we serve by continuing to promulgate* this interpretation? How do we (Americans) hope to influence the future by this interpretation of the past?
* What does promulgate mean? (What a great SAT word!)
Who carried Calvinist doctrine about predestination to its logical conclusion and said that the truly saved did not need to follow the laws of God or man? What was this belief called?
OPTIONAL: How does this woman live on on the bumper of Mrs. Walton’s car?
What happened to her?
Who was Roger Williams?
Where was the first Baptist church in America built?
How was Rhode Island culturally different from the Puritan colonies?
What were some of Rhode Island’s nicknames? What did the choice of nickname reveal about the speaker’s beliefs?
Who was Thomas Hooker?
What was significant about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Describe two previous documents important to the rise of liberty and democracy in America.
Why is there not a 51st state called New Haven?
How did Massachusetts acquire the territory that is now Maine?
How did New Hampshire escape the fate of New Haven?
Who was Squanto? Could you consider him to be analogous to Malinche? Why or why not?
Describe the course of the Pequot war.
What were “praying towns?”
Who was King Philip? What did he do and what became of him?
On a separate sheet of paper, draw a cause and effect chart (with visually appealing illustrations) showing the creation, conduct, and collapse of the New England Confederation. Be creative!
What does “benign neglect” mean?
How did the Restoration in England affect the American colonies?
How did Charles II punish Massachusetts’ obstreperousness (one of our cool vocabulary words!)?
How did Americans react to the rule of Edmund Andros?
How did the Glorious Revolution affect the American colonies?
Describe the Dutch colonial effort:
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
What happened to New Sweden?
How did Charles grab the Dutch Colonies without expending funds from the royal treasury?
Who were the patroons? (Look it up – your textbook does not use the term)
Why were Quakers persecuted?
Describe the Quaker religion.
How did the Penn family come to own a huge amount of land in the New World?
How did Penn run his colony?
Describe the origin of New Jersey.
What characteristics did the Middle Colonies share?
Summarize the “Middle Way”
Makers of America: The English
Describe the indentured servants who arrived in the Chesapeake area.
What were “freedom dues?”
Explain how your textbook describes the transition from indentured servitude to slavery. What is glaringly omitted?
How was the Puritan migration different from the settlement pattern of the Chesapeake?
How did the hometowns of the Puritans effect the economic development of New England?
Varying Viewpoints:
Read and summarize the argument.