Chapter 2 Settling of Northern Colonies Flashcards
Puritans
- Don’t like catholic beliefs and want to get rid of their influence
-oliver cromwell
-separatists believe anglican church is too far gone and move to Holland
-Go to New world (plymouth)
-Mayflower compact
-City upon a hill given by John Winthrop about building new Christian society
mayflower compact
-agreement made on Mayflower to establish a basic legal system where the people have a say on power
-only consent of white, male, landowners
Anne Hutchinson
-puritan dissentor
-didn’t like subordinate role of women
-didn’t like ministers role
-wanted free interpretation of Bible
-exiled and killed by Natives
-called divine punishment
Roger Williams
-disagreed with no religious toleration and thought
-exiled and makes colony in Rhode Island that is tolerant
-Argued separation of religion and state
Puritan society
-Come to new world in family units
-cocmpact villages that surrounded church/ meeting place
-self government
-patriarchal
-value education- harvard
-only taught religious men
-educated magistrates or government officials were ones that enforced strict rules
relations with natives
-Squanto helps plant corn and trade fur for weapons
-Thanksgiving after helping defeat native tribe
-take land and get hostile
-smallpox leaves 20,000
-Chief Metacomb attacked 12 settlements in massachusetts killing about 1,000 settlers
-outnumbered and 3,000 died on native side- broken people
middle colonies
-winter isn’t bad
-soil is fertile for grain- longer growing season- bread colonies
-better harbors
-rivers connect them to fur trade
-less industry than New England but more than south
-Further south better farm
-diverse ethnic and religious
-melting pot
-religiously tolerant
Pennsylvania
-William Penn
-called a holy experiment
-very liberal
-wanted to be religiously tolerant
-no state sponsored church
-diverse mix of ethnic and religious groups
william penn
-became quaker at 16 depite fathers wishes- flogged
-got arrested
-saucy and impertinent-speaks up
-spends 4 years in PA no love
-accused of being too friendly with Christians
quakers
-pacifists
-freedom of religion
-larger role of women in church
-first abolitionists
quakers offend authority
=Refuse to give money to the Church of England
-Had meeting houses, but no paid clergy to lead the meetings
-Spoke up for themselves
-Believed everyone was equal in God’s eyes
-Had big hats that they refused to take off for some people
-Refused to give special titles
-Didn’t take oaths
-Refused military
New York Dutch
-first called New Netherlands by Henry Hudson
-controlled by West India Company to find Northwest Passage
-Purchased Manhattan called it New Amsterdam
-corrupt and abusive leaders in company town
-no religious toleration- abuse quakers
-build walls to keep indians out (wall street)
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New York taken over
-Hostility btwn Dutch and New England
-Gustavas Andolphus from Sweden trespasses and is stopped by Peter Stuyvesant
-Swedes didn’t generate money so not seen as a threat
-Dutch surrender to England and is absorbed into their colonies
-rename New York after Duke of York
Salutary Neglect
-England neglects and pulls away from colonies leaving them with autonomy- self government, laws, and choices
-too expensive to upkeep
-hard to enforce laws across ocean
-fear of alliance with France
mercantilism
-Britain economic service
-Adam Smith- wealth of nations
-Britain wants to take raw materials from colonies, maufacture them in England and sell back to colonies at upcharge
-export more than imput
-america dependent on factories
