Saints and SInners Flashcards
How did Squanto show the Pilgrims to fertilize their crops?
By laying dead fish atop them.
What happened the falling autumn after they arrived at Plymouth Rock?
An Indian appeared speaking English.
Why could Squanto speak English?
He was captured by Spain and almost sold into slavery, but he made it to England and learned English.
How many pilgrims had died the first winter?
Half of the pilgrims died because of the harsh winter.
What did Squanto learn about when he returned to America?
He learned about the English disease that swept through his homeland killing his people.
Who were the first of many to protest in New England?
The Pilgrims who were looking to create a holy commonwealth.
What were the people who withdrew from New England known as and where were they live?
They were from the town of Scrooby and were known as Separatists.
What kind people were drawn from Separatists?
Pilgrims were drawn from them.
Where did they depart from New England?
The Separatists departed to the Dutch Low Countries.
What happened after 12 years of living among the dutch?
They became homesick.
What did King James give the Pilgrims?
He had given them the Pilgrims’ Charter/ A legal document from King James setting out what they could do, but it said nothing about if they could settle elsewhere.
What happened on the ship between the passengers?
They decided to create a government of their own by combining together into a civil body politic that would make just and equals laws for the colony’s good.
What was the name of the document that the people on the Mayflower came up with?
The Mayflower Compact was the name of the document.
Why did King James dislike Puritans and Separatists?
They spoke too much and might judge for themselves.
What happened ten years after Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock?
Nearly one thousand settlers came to begin the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What did Puritans and Luther have in common?
They both wanted everyone to be able to read the Bible.
Out of 10 men how many could read in Massachusetts?
Only about 6 in 10 men could read.
Out of 10 women how many could read in Massachusetts.
Only about 3 in 10 women could read.
What were all colonists required to do?
They were required to attend all church services even if they weren’t Christian.
What would a person have to do to become a full church member?
A person had to explain the personal religious experience that brought him or her to be born anew in the Holy Massachusetts Bay
What would happen to anyone who taught ideas leading to the destruction of the souls of men?
They were banished from the colony and if such undesirables returned again to spread false beliefs, their tongues might be bored out with a hot iron or they could be hanged.
Who founded Hartford, Connecticut and why?
It was founded by Puritans who believed that the Massachusetts authorities were too strict.
Who founded New Haven and why?
New Haven was begun by those who thought Puritans were not strict enough.
Who was the Rambunctious that set up his outpost Plymouth and enjoyed the company of Indians.
Thomas Morton.
Who was the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
John Winthrop.
Who was the minister that came to the realizations that forcing people to be pure was difficult?
Roger Williams.
Who went from settlement to settlement searching for the purist one?
Roger Williams.
Why did the puritans banish Roger Williams.
He was banished for condemning the colony’s ministers and attempting to banish them.
Where did Roger Williams flee to in the middle of the night?
He fled to the Wampanoag Indians, who agreed to shelter this stranger.
What did Roger Williams say about forcing someone to worship in a certain way?
That it “stinks in God’s nostrils.”
What did Roger’s settlement later become?
It later became the Colony of Rhode Island.
What important truth did Roger master?
That a state could not make one out of many by forcing everyone to believe the same way. Better to “pray with all comers’ and hope for the best.
