Massachusetts Flashcards
Virginia Company’s Charter is revoked
in 1624 by James I
It is now a royal colony
Sends a message to Powhatan: Not messing with investors anymore and if the colony is attacked, it is an attack on England
Puritan Values:
Wanted to make Church system simple
No Popes, Bishops, Cardinals, Priests, Deacons, or Saints
and simplify the Church service:
No statues, Paintings, Stained glass, or Marbled Alters
Central Point of Church should be the Bible
The Puritan Church was austere
Puritans who left England and Puritans who left for the New World to seek religious freedom
Seperatists and Pilgrims
Mistake en route leads to:
landing in New England but the Pilgrims have not been granted a charter there
Pilgrims land in
1620 and craft the Mayflower Compact
Points taken from the Mayflower Compact
loyalty to the king
power to frame and enact laws
just and equal laws
will of the majority
promise to obey the laws
provide for the foundation of Massachusetts
Significance of the Mayflower Compact:
First document of self government in the New World
Land at Plymouth Rock:
1620
What is the significance of Squanto:
March 21st, 1621: Squanto “special instrument of God”
More Puritans form a company and are granted a charter to settle in New England
The Massachusetts bay company in 1629
Process to Set up a Colony:
CAR:
Charter
Assembly
Representative government
Massachusetts is Born
1630
Why were the puritans successful?
Had a sense of mission and conviction that God would save them
Church provided unity and organization to found more towns
Puritan settlers were a source of wealth and influence from Britain
John Winthrop’s view of man
Man is free
man is evil
therefore freedom is evil
Two Fold Liberty(problem)
Natural Liberty is the problem
Liberty is a double edged sword, it can be a solution as well as a problem
Man cannot be good if he remains free
Two Fold Liberty (solution)
Civil or Moral liberty is the solution
this liberty allows for the concept of law
But man made (man only) law
Two Fold Liberty (Theocracy)
Liberty between “man” and “man” can govern freedom but not govern evil
Liberty among men creates evil law
Liberty between man and God creates good law
Only government which enacts good law is theocracy
Two Fold Liberty (property)
Liberty = Law
Law = Theocracy
Liberty = Theocracy
Winthrop’s analogy of the relationship between elected official and citizen to husband and wife
The key is “choice”
People choose their government like wives choose their husbands
Once the choice is made, authority must demand obedience from the other.
Choice (property)
Choice = Republicanism
Choice = Marriage
Marriage = Republicanism
Massachusetts is the most powerful of all the Northern Colonies
1690
Why was the Rhode Island Colony founded
Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts because of his conflicting religious views.
He founded Rhode island in 1636 as a Haven for people of all religions
In which colonies were religious beliefs a central focus?
Rhode Island was founded for greater religious freedom
Connecticut (New Haven Colony)
Founded to be stricter than the Puritans of Massachusetts by Thomas Hooker
Significance of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut of 1639
First constitution in the New World
Judeo-Christian value system
