New York/Connecticut

Question 1

Did the Puritans in Massachusetts share the same ideas?

Answer 1

Not all of them

Question 2

Who was Thomas Hooker?

Answer 2

A puritan clergyman who used to live in New Towne, Boston, founder of Connecticut

Question 3

What happened since Hooker didn’t agree with the laws and leadership in Massachusetts?

Answer 3

His family and 100 other people travelled to Connecticut valley with their animals and their belongings

Question 4

Where was Connecticut Valley?

Answer 4

A fertile valley along a river to the west of Massachusetts

Question 5

Where did Hooker and his followers establish their settlement? What did they call it?

Answer 5

On the site of an old Dutch fort
Hartford

Question 6

How many other settlements did Hartford join with to form Connecticut? What year?

Answer 6

Two
1639

Question 7

What did Hooker believe the government should be based on?

Answer 7

The free consent of the people to whom belongs the choice of officials by God

Question 8

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Answer 8

The first written plan of government for all colonies
Guaranteed the right to vote for all men who were part of the Puritan church

Question 9

What was New Haven
Why did the people establish it
What did the people that established it agreed to live by?

Answer 9

A separate colony other puritans made that agreed to “live by the word of God”
Wanted stricter laws than Hookers more Protestant

Question 10

Compare New Haven’s laws to that of Hartford

Answer 10

New Haven’s laws were stricter

Question 11

In 1662, King Charles II granted a charter. What did the charter say?

Answer 11

It was for a new Connecticut colony that included New Haven
It gave Connecticut the most rights enjoyed by any other colonists except Rhode Islands

Question 12

What became the symbol of Connecticuts freedom?

Answer 12

The “Charter Oak”

Question 13

What was the climate and geography of Connecticut?

Answer 13

Cold winters, mild summers
Forested hills, sea coast

Question 14

What was the economy + occupations for Connecticut

Answer 14

Farming, shipbuilding, whaling, fishing

Question 15

What was the government of Connecticut?

Answer 15

Self governing, Written constitution

Question 16

What settlement did the English take control of and call New York, and who was it named after

Answer 16

New Netherland
Proprietor (Duke of York)

Question 17

What were the names of the friends the Duke of York gave huge chunks of his colony to that then made New Jersey in the south?

Answer 17

Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley

Question 18

Who did the duke award large estates along the Hudson River to and what was the outcome?

Answer 18

Wealthy Englishmen
They charged high rents to the farmers working their land, relating a great different in wealth between land owners and poor tenants
Discouraged people from settling in New York

Question 19

The Duke of York expected New York to be a ____ colony, so what did he do as its owner?

Answer 19

Money-making
Appointed people to run the colony
Issued his own laws
Decided taxes

Question 20

Who approved of the Dukes laws and who did not?

Answer 20

Rich landlords approved, farmers, fishers, and tradespeople did not

Question 21

What did farmers, fishers, and tradespeople demand
What did the Duke say?

Answer 21

The right to elect an assembly to make the laws for New York, but the Duke refused

Question 22

Why did the Duke refuse the assembly at first?

Answer 22

He said that elected assemblies disturbed the peace of the government

Question 23

After years of protest, the Duke allowed the New Yorkers to elect an assembly. What did the assembly do?
How many laws did it pass?
What was the most important law?
What was the other 3 important laws?

Answer 23

Pass 15 laws
Most important was a charter listing the number of rights most colonists beloved they deserved as English Citizens
Right to elect lawmakers, right to trial by jury, the right to worship as they please

Question 24

What happened when the Duke saw what the assembly had done?

Answer 24

He abolished it

Question 25

When did New York get a new assembly

Answer 25

Under the leadership of Jacob Leisler

Question 26

Who was Jacob Leisler

Answer 26

Elected commander in chief of a democratic council that governed until 1691

Question 27

In 1691, New York was

Answer 27

Finally granted the right to elect an assembly that made laws and set taxes for the colony

Question 28

Founders of New York

Answer 28

Dutch West India Company and James Duke of York

Question 29

Settlers of New York

Answer 29

Dutch and English in search of new lives

Question 30

Climate of New York

Answer 30

Cold, snowy winters; hot, humid summers

Question 31

Geography of New York

Answer 31

Wetlands along the coast and Hudson River, forested mountains to the North

Question 32

Economy/Occupations of New York

Answer 32

Fur-trapping, lumbering, shipping, slave trade, merchants and tradesman, farming, iron mining

Question 33

Religion of New York

Answer 33

Various faiths

Question 34

Government of New York

Answer 34

British-appointed governor and council alternating with elected assembly

Question 35

Why did a group of Puritans form their own colony of New Haven, instead of joining Hooker’s Connecticut colony?

Answer 35

They wanted to live by stricter laws than those of Connecticut

Question 36

What did Hooker believe in government-wise?

Answer 36

The people electing their leaders

Question 37

Before, New York was called ____ which was Dutch

Answer 37

New Netherland

Question 38

New York was a ___ colony, controlled by the king

Answer 38

Royal

Question 39

What did New York begin as and what happened with it?

Answer 39

Began as the Dutch colony of New Netherland which owed its economic success to trade with Native Americans and British colonies
James Duke of York conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York

Question 40

How was James, Duke of York, related to England’s King Charles II

Answer 40

Brothers

Question 41

What was the religion of Connecticut

Answer 41

Puritan