APUSH 1607-1754

Question 1

Early Settlements New England

Answer 1

• 1620 - Plymouth Founded - mayflower compact self-governance - follow just and equal laws, pilgrims were separatists
• 1624 - New York founded by Dutch
• 1629 Mass Bay Founded - “City on a Hill”
  - Gov. John Winthrop - religious community
  instead of individualism, example for the
  rest of the world
  - Common Good Important
  - Bi Cameral Legislature - more self gov
  because legislature in America, religious
  schools
  - more equal than south, everyone could
  read
  - Anne Hutchinson - Inner grace not
  outward manifestations banished
  - Roger Williams - Freedom of religion -
  Rhode Island

Question 1

Early Settlements Chesapeake

Answer 1

• 1584-1587 Roanoke
• 1607 Jamestown VA - bad land, malaria, no gold, rich guys,
  John Smith made people work to eat
  - 1614 John Rolfe Tobacco -
  1619 First African Slaves
  - 1618 - Headright system created
• 1632 Maryland founded - proprietorship to Cecelius Calvert - catholic

Question 2

Early Spanish Settlements

Answer 2

• 1610 - Santa Fe - failed conversion attempts led to 1680 Pope rebellion - Spanish became more tolerant and quit encomienda
• Bartallomo de las Casas - said Spanish should treat natives better

Question 3

Native and English Relations Jamestown

Answer 3

• Jamestown was made near Powhaten, he helped them because they had guns, John Smith told his men not to steal from Natives, they traded - led to natives over hunting, and Europeans expanded their farm land, John Smith saved by Pocahontas, John Smith leaves and people begin stealing again - peace due to John Rolfe x Pocahontas, 1622 and 1644 uprisings failed but wasted Virginia company money

Question 4

Relations, New England

Answer 4

• Bought land, Massachusetts seal that has native saying help us, viewed natives as lesser, Pequot War Pequot killed English trader so massacre at Pequot village Mystic, led to native massacre - opened up Connecticut river, continued resistance, King Phillips War 1675 two years and half of English towns attacked,

Question 5

Dutch

Answer 5

• (1624) New Amsterdam - everyone could come who could make money, drove natives out, taken by English in 1664, under English pop doubled but women lost freedom to do business and property, free blacks lost rights as well

Question 6

Pennsylavnia

Answer 6

• Charles II gave to William Penn, haven for quakers, tolerant but hated slavery, toleration and respect for natives until Penn died, pacifists, religious freedom, cheep land attracted germans, more than half men could vote,

Question 7

South

Answer 7

• 1663 - eight proprietors, came from Barbados, great at slavery imported African after natives,

Question 8

Rebellion

Answer 8

• 1666 Nathanial Bacon led a rebellion because gov Berkly didn’t allow men who wanted land to kill natives, so they burned Jamestown
• shift from indentured servitude to slavery, and desire from crown to tighten control

Question 9

English Control

Answer 9

• 1687 - Bring all of New England Colonies into dominion of New England, Edmund Andros became leader over all, but Glorious revolution led to English Toleration Act of 1690 all protestants could vote, property ownership defined votership, governor now from England

Question 10

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 10

• 1691 - New England failed religious mission as they suffered from God and had to accept all protestant religions so scape goat

Question 11

Life in late 1600s New England

Answer 11

• Most lived on small farms, population skyrocketed, land expanded, land represented freedom, growing number of artisans,

Question 12

Life in the colonies

Answer 12

• Elite ruling class especially in the south, much better to be poor in colonies than in Europe, married women couldn’t have property, in earlier days when each person mattered women had more value, Mary Cooper Diaries shows women rarely left house and lived in poor condition