Massachusetts

Question 1

Virginia Company’s Charter is revoked

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Puritan Values:

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Puritans who left England and Puritans who left for the New World to seek religious freedom

Answer 3

Seperatists and Pilgrims

Question 4

Mistake en route leads to:

Answer 4

landing in New England but the Pilgrims have not been granted a charter there

Question 5

Pilgrims land in

Answer 5

1620 and craft the Mayflower Compact

Question 6

Points taken from the Mayflower Compact

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Significance of the Mayflower Compact:

Answer 7

First document of self government in the New World

Question 8

Land at Plymouth Rock:

Answer 8

1620

Question 9

What is the significance of Squanto:

Answer 9

March 21st, 1621: Squanto “special instrument of God”

Question 10

More Puritans form a company and are granted a charter to settle in New England

Answer 10

The Massachusetts bay company in 1629

Question 11

Process to Set up a Colony:

Answer 11

CAR:

Charter

Assembly

Representative government

Question 12

Massachusetts is Born

Answer 12

1630

Question 13

Why were the puritans successful?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

John Winthrop’s view of man

Answer 14

Man is free

man is evil

therefore freedom is evil

Question 15

Two Fold Liberty(problem)

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Two Fold Liberty (solution)

Answer 16

Civil or Moral liberty is the solution

this liberty allows for the concept of law

But man made (man only) law

Question 17

Two Fold Liberty (Theocracy)

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Two Fold Liberty (property)

Answer 18

Liberty = Law
Law = Theocracy
Liberty = Theocracy

Question 19

Winthrop’s analogy of the relationship between elected official and citizen to husband and wife

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Choice (property)

Answer 20

Choice = Republicanism
Choice = Marriage
Marriage = Republicanism

Question 21

Massachusetts is the most powerful of all the Northern Colonies

Answer 21

1690

Question 22

Why was the Rhode Island Colony founded

Answer 22

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

Question 23

In which colonies were religious beliefs a central focus?

Answer 23

Rhode Island was founded for greater religious freedom
Connecticut (New Haven Colony)
Founded to be stricter than the Puritans of Massachusetts by Thomas Hooker

Question 24

Significance of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut of 1639

Answer 24

First constitution in the New World

Question 25

Judeo-Christian value system