English colonies into 3 parts Flashcards
New England states
connecticut, massachusetts, rhode island, maine
NE legacy
- conservatism; see puritan stuff
Middle states
NY, PA, NJ, DA
religious liberty= practical necessity;
PA: Pluralism=religious liberty in principle
Middle States: NY
religious toleration= economically necessary;
communitarian movements
Middle: NY: John Noyse/ communitarians
second coming has happened, multiple marriages, animal husbandry for children
Middle: NY: Comm: John Smith and gold tablets
visitation from two heavenly personages (God and Christ);
hidden book=economic purposes, know third testament created, 5,000 copies printed
Middle: Penn
William Penn: brotherly love
religious pluralism: Quakers
Southern states
VA, MA, CA, GA
- land availability promotes diversity and tolerance
- tongue-speech; tremors; people getting knocked down
Southern Land Availability: Carolinas
- Carolinas: answer to remain 3rd, 4th, 5th sons who didn’t get plantations
- commercial colony granting religious toleration
Southern Land Georgia
- colony for poor who filled prisons in England
2. Religious liberty via James Oglethorpe; synagogue in savannah