Chap.2- 13 Colonies

Question 0

Define proprietary colonies.

Answer 0

A colony to witch the king assigned a proprietor(s) to govern.

Question 1

What was a charter colony?

Answer 1

A charter colony is a colony run by a trade company witch gets its authorization from the king.

Question 2

Royal colony-

Answer 2

A colony that was controlled by the crown through a governor.

Question 3

Headrights-

Answer 3

Fifty acre tracts given to those who paid for their passage or were indentured

Question 4

Indenture-

Answer 4

A work contract that lasted 4-7 years

Question 5

New England-

Answer 5

In 1614, john smith,who was commissioned by the Virginia company, found a region that was rich with furs and fish. This land,witch Smith called New England,reorganized the Plymouth company into its New England’s council. New England is made up of these
colonies:Vermont,Massachusetts, new Hampshire , Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

Question 6

Pilgrims-

Answer 6

People who had left their homes and lands in order to worship God freely.

Question 7

Puritans-

Answer 7

A group of Anglicans who wanted to purify the state church from within by pushing the reforms that would rid England of Romanist influences and bring greater spiritual vitality to the nation.

Question 8

Separatists-

Answer 8

Also known as independents, believed that each local congregation should be independent of all other churches.

Question 9

William Bradford-

Answer 9

Leading a group of thirty-five pilgrims,sailed from Holland in the speedwell. They joined the mayflower in england and together set out for America. He later became the governor of Plymouth.

Question 10

Mayflower compact-

Answer 10

Bound the settlers into a “civil body politic” by which they they agreed to submit to the laws and duly elected leadership of the colony.

Question 11

Great migration-

Answer 11

A time in the 1630’s when fifty-thousand settlers sailed from England to various colonies in America and the west-indies.

Question 12

John Winthrop-

Answer 12

A Cambridge educated man, a leading officer and financier in the Massachusetts bay company, and the founding governor of Massachusetts. Winthrop envisioned his colony as a spiritual commonwealth.

Question 13

Covenant-

Answer 13

The puritans belief which said that God had a covenant with his people in regard to their salvation, and that they, in turn, covenanted with one another to pursue common goals- in this case to build a holy commonwealth.

Question 14

Harvard college-

Answer 14

Was established in Boston in 1636 to train young men for the ministry. This was America’s first college.

Question 15

Thomas hooker-

Answer 15

Was a Puritan pastor who moved three congregations under his leadership into the Connecticut River Valley and setting up communities at Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor.

Question 16

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut-

Answer 16

This document ,which has been called the first written constitution in America, established a framework for representative self government in Connecticut.

Question 17

Roger Williams-

Answer 17

Declared it a national sin for England to take Indian land without compensation; he denounced his fellow puritans for not severing all ties with the Anglican church; and he advocated complete separation of church and state.

Question 18

Anne Hutchison-

Answer 18

A mother of fifteen children who followed her Puritan pastor, John Cotton, to Massachusetts in 1634. She began to teach that outward obedience to the scriptures was unnecessary to demonstrate an inward relationship with God( a position called antinomianism). She believed that God had given her a revelation that superseded the bible.

Question 19

Antinomianism-

Answer 19

The teachings of Anne Hutchison

Question 20

Middle colonies-

Answer 20

A stretch of land that’s went from long island to Delaware bay that English, Dutch, German, French, swedish, Finnish, and Scottish people found a niche in. The middle colonies are New York, New Jersey, Delleware, and Pennsylvania.