APUSH 13 Colonies Notes

Roger Williams

________- Puritan but challenged /banished from Massachusetts Bay because believed individual over church authority ● Along w /Anne Hutchinson who argued: church elites needed conversion experience & strong role for women.

Mayflower Compact

________- first self- government and rudimentary constitution of rule by majority; Puritan refuge; shipbuilding; 1st Thanksgiving w /Wampanoags; Mass Bay Co= John Winthrop "city upon a hill; "Governor Bradford Maryland ●.

Quakers

________ were unlike Puritans because they rejected predestination and original sin.

New England

________ (Like Rhode Island, also formed by Puritans who broke away from Massachusetts Bay) ● 1639- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut= first written constitution with legislature, governor, etc.

Roger Williams -Puritan but challenged/banished from Massachusetts Bay because believed individual over church authority ● Along w/ Anne Hutchinson who argued

church elites needed conversion experience & strong role for women

Jamestown

1st permanent colony

House of Burgesses

N. America’s 1st legislative assembly

Tobacco

marketable crop

Headright System

50 acres per settler

Bacon’s rebellion

shows trouble defining boundaries w/ natives and restrictions on fur trade; exposed conflict between backcountry and coastal aristocrats
Jamestown survived learning ag. Practices from Powhatans (Algonquin)

Plymouth

Separatists (Pilgrims, Mayflower)

Mass. Bay

Puritans (Anglican). Anglican membership required for political participation

Mayflower Compact

first self-government and rudimentary constitution of rule by majority; Puritan refuge; shipbuilding; 1st Thanksgiving w/ Wampanoags; Mass Bay Co = John Winthrop “city upon a hill”; Governor Bradford

Chesapeake

Virginia and Maryland

Act of Toleration

safe haven for Catholics; tolerance toward Christians; absolute authority “Lord Baltimores” (George Calvert = 1st); better relationship with natives, conflict between Catholics and Protestants, tobacco cultivation; headright system → slavey by late 1600s

Roger Williams

Puritan but challenged/banished from Massachusetts Bay because believed individual over church authority

Anne Hutchinson

argued: church elites needed conversion experience & strong role for women

North

backwoods farmers, subsistence agriculture, no aristocracy

South

large plots of land, aristocracy, slaves from Barbados and ultimately Africa

Quakers

(Society of Friends). Quakers were unlike Puritans because they rejected predestination and original sin. Women could be preachers, no ministers because all equal under God, PACIFIST

Charter of Liberties

representative assembly-only after Penn lost favor