House Book 2 Study Guide

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Oliver Cromwell

Puritan leader that succeeded King Charles 1 and dies in 1658

Toleration vs Equality

Toleration: You suck but we won’t kill you

Equality: You are just as bad as us and we won’t kill you

Benjamin Franklin

Scientists, inventor, writer. Wrote the Poor Richard almanac, created the lightbulb and had influence with France.

List all New England Colonies

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Conneticut

What is a democracy?

All make decisions

What is a theocracy?

Church makes decisions

List all Middle Colonies

New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennslvania

List all Southern Colonies

Virginia, Maryland, North/South Carolina, Georgia

Describe slave trade in Southern Colonies

Everybody buys tons of slaves, forcing more people to buy slaves to keep up with the competition. People can’t even free slaves since they don’t have a way to survive, live, or go back.

Roger Williams

Was a hardcore Puritan that believed in religious tolerance. He created Rhode Island. He pioneered the belief in the separation of the church and government.

John Winthrop

Governor of Massachusetts. Very Puritan. He was originally a lawyer but lost his job in England due to being Puritan.

Anne Hutchinson

A puritan lady with 14 kids that preached her own interpretation of the bible. She was kicked out of Massachusetts because of this and was murdered by Natives in New York.

Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers

Pilgrims: Separatists that want to leave the Anglican Religion

Puritans: People that want to “purify” the Anglican Religion

Quakers: Anglicans that don’t believe in needing ministers to communicate with god.

Squanto

The native who taught the pilgrims how to farm, fish and survive.

What is a Charter

A set of rules and regulations for a colony to follow

Opechancanough

Uncle of Pocohantas, planned the great massacre of 1622 which killed 1/3 of jamestown

Plantains

A large farm owned by commonly a House of Burgesses member. This farm is run by slaves and functions like a small village. These Plantains grew tobacco.

Role in government of Southern Colonies.

Plantain owners were often house of burgesses members.

Navigation acts

England saying: “You can’t get anything out side of the colonies from anyone except me!”

James Oglethorpe

Founder of Georgia. He made treaties of peace with the mound builders.

1619?

First slaves arrived in Virginia. First womon in Virginia. First representative government in Virginia.

What is the House of Burgesses

An elected group of people in Virginia that creates laws.

Massachusetts

Created by the Pilgrims/Separatists in 1620

Virginia

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement was created in 1607 led by John Smith in the goal to make money from gold.

Maryland

Created by Cecilius Calvert in 1634 for the Catholics being oppressed in the New World.

Rhode Island

Created by Roger Williams who was exiled from Massachusetts and bought from the Narragassat natives in 1636

Conneticut

Created in 1636 by Thomas Hooker who disagreed with the Massachusett leaders.

New Jersey

Created in 1664 when King Charles 2 gives a chunk of land to George Carteret and Duke Berkeley. This colony was very diverse due to the Freedom of Religion.

New York

Originally Dutch but was turned into English in 1664.

New Hampshire

Created by John Wheelwright who was exiled from Massachusetts in 1629.

North/South Carolina

North C was created in 1663 by a gift of land to 8 proprietors.

South C was created in 1670 by farmers that created plantations to sell tobacco.

Delaware

Was dutch but turned English in 1664. (also ruled by Wiliam Penn.

Georgia

The last of the colonies that was created by James Oglethorpe in 1732 in hopes to help the people in debt, poor, or in prison in England. This did not work out.

Pennslyvania

William Penn was exiled for being a quaker but got land from king Charles 2 and created Pennsylvania. Freedom of Religion.

Mary Dyer

A Martyr that was exiled from Massachusetts many times and ended up executed.

Shapes of the Colonies?

Maine: Crescent Axe

New Hampshire: Middle Finger

Massachusetts: Glock

Connecticut: Square

New York: Hat

Pennsylvania: Parallelogram

Maryland: Just looks like Maryland

Virginia: Tall Hat

N/S Carolina: Big chongus in middle

Georgia: At the bottom