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42 Cards in this Set
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What is a charter colony? |
a colony governed by a trade company that received its authorization from the king |
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What is a proprietary colony? |
the king appointed a proprietor to govern a colony |
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What is a royal colony? |
a colony controlled directly by the crown |
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What region did Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire belong to? |
New England Colonies |
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What region did New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware belong to? |
Middle Colonies |
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What region did Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia belong to? |
Southern Colonies |
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Which region did puritanism dominate? |
New England Colonies |
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What region did anglicanism dominate? |
Southern Colonies |
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What region was religiously diverse? |
Middle Colonies |
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Which region was established as an economic venture and was seeking natural resources to provide material wealth to the mother country and themselves? |
Southern Colonies |
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Which region was primarily made up of religious reformers and separatists who were seeking a new way of life to glorify God and for the greater good of their spiritual life? |
New England Colonies |
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Which region welcomed people from various and diverse lifestyles and included all three varieties of social political structure: villages, cities, and small farms? |
Middle Colonies |
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Which area was a refuge for Catholics? |
Maryland |
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Which agreement bound the settlers into a "civill body politick" by which they agreed to submit to the laws and duly elected leadership of the colony? |
The Mayflower Compact |
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Which document has been called the first written constitution in America, and established a framework for representative self-government in Connecticut? |
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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Which act established religious toleration which provided that no one professing a belief in Christ should be troubled in the free exercise of his religion? |
The Toleration Act of 1649 |
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the leader of the thirty-five Pilgrims who boarded the Mayflower |
William Bradford |
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the governor of the Puritan colony; dreamed of establishing a "wilderness Zion" |
John Winthrop |
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the Puritan minister who moved three congregations into the Connecticut River Valley |
Thomas Hooker |
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a Puritan who gained a reputation as a troublemaker for his declarations of England's possession of Indian land being a "natural sinne" as well as his complete advocation of the separation of church and state; established a settlement called Providence after being banished by the General Court |
Roger Williams |
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a leading dissident of Rhode Island; established Antinomianism (the teaching that outward obedience to the Scriptures were unnecessary to demonstrate an inward relationship to God) |
Anne Hutchinson |
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an Englishman explorer who sailed westward to America in hopes of finding a channel through which to reach China and reached as far as modern Albany |
Henry Hudson |
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a Dutch governor who purchased Manhattan from the Indians by that name for $24 worth of cloth and trinkets |
Peter Minuit |
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the peg-legged Dutch governor who sounded the call to arms when the English men-of-war massed off New Amsterdam |
Peter Stuyvesant |
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some would argue Pennsylvania was the product of this one man's vision and labor; his Frames of Government provided religious toleration and political liberty for the colony; treated Indians equally due to his Quaker convictions |
William Penn |
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the leader of the first group of settlers that arrived in Maryland; established a settlement called St. Mary's |
Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore |
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the earl of Shaftesbury |
Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper |
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a reform-minded general determined to build a colony that would provide rehabilitation through opportunity and hard work |
James Oglethorpe |
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At what approximate age were women marrying in the colonies? |
around 20 |
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What were the birth-rates like in the American colonies? |
extremely high |
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True or False: Early marriages and large families were favored because they provided an important labor source for the home. |
True |
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True or False: The infant death rates were high. |
True |
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True or False: The infant death rate was higher in the American colonies than in Europe. |
False |
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What were the two largest groups of non-English settlers? |
Scottish-Irish and Germans |
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Most of the German immigrants were ____________. |
Protestant/Lutheran |
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The Scotch-Irish were _______________ Scots from the Protestant colony of Ulster in Northern Ireland. |
Presbyterian |
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What were the four most important religious movements during colonial times? |
Pilgrims/Separatists, Quakers, Anglicans, and Puritans |
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What were the five groups that immigrated to the American colonies? |
Scottish-Irish, Germans, French Huguenot, French, and mennonites |
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In which region did education succeed the most? |
New England |
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What two factors limited the scope of colonial literacy? |
geography and the lack of a Puritan presence |
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What aspect of Puritanism improved education? |
"Puritan zeal" for the Word of God and widespread spiritual hunger; enthusiasm for the printed page |
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What aspect of the Middle and Southern Colonies prevented education from truly taking off? |
they were more scattered and isolated |