U. S. History, 17A
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Nations of Nations
Chapter Four
Colonization and
Conflict in the North
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Map.
Using the maps in your textbook, Nation of Nations, locate the
four
(4) New England colonies and the four (4) middle colonies. You will
need
to know their locations for the first midterm.
Answer the following
questions:
I. The Founding of New
England
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can
be found
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about this picture'.
4. According to the
English,
the northern
part of North America was a place in which only the French could see
possibilities.
What were 5 disadvantages of the northern part of North America from
the
English point of view?
Please go to the site Puritans
and Calvinists and and answer the questions there.
11. What swelled a second
wave of Puritan
migration to Massachusetts after 1629? Organized as the
Massachusetts
Bay Company, this second wave of Puritans settled in ___ and their
first
governor was ___ ?
12. The Massachusetts Bay
Company Puritans
elected the governor of the company and, hence, their community. After
1631, who were the freemen?
II. Stability and Order in Early New England
13. How long did the first
generation
of colonists live? How did this compare to the life-span in Virginia
and
in England? How large was the typical family? What was the
population
of New England and the Chesapeake in 1700? What accounted for this
growth
in each area?
14. Unlike the Virginians,
who___ ,
most New Englanders established ___ . In a typical New England
community,
or town, each family received a lot for a house along with ___.
While the Chesapeake abounded with servants, tenant farmers and slaves,
almost every adult male in New England ___ .
15. What constituted the
center of community life in colonial New England?
16. What powers did each
town's
congregation
possess?
17. In order to join any
congregational
church, a person had to have experienced a 'conversion' . What was this?
18. How were decisions made
at New England town meetings?
19. Where did families with
wealth
and influence sit in the Old Ship Meetinghouse?
Why was the pulpit at the
front
of
this church raised?
20. How widespread was
literacy in colonial New England? What did most 17th century New
Englanders prefer
to read?
21. What were
'wonders'? Why did ministers like to recount
tales
of wonders?
22. What 6 legal
disadvantages
did
women in colonial New England suffer?
23. What common
characteristics
did
accused 'witches' have?
24. What characteristics
did New Englanders actually share with the Indians
around them? What was a 'sachem' or 'sagamore'?
III. The Mid-Atlantic or
Middle
Colonies
25. Who
founded
Pennsylvania
and why?
26. What were 4 of the
'odd'
behavior
traits of the Quakers?
27. Quakers believed that
all
men and
women ___ ?
28. For what 2 reasons did
the
Quakers
get along with the Indians?
29. In what 4 ways did Penn promote good relations with
the local Indians, the Lenni Lenapes?
30. What city became the
center
of
trade in Pennsylvania as well as the commercial and cultural center of
England's North American empire?
New England Primer
Please read the selections
from, New
England Primer, and then answer the following questions:
31. In general, what is
being
taught
to children along with their ABC's?
32. What is the appropriate
relationship
between a child and her parents?
33. What is the Chief End
of
Man?
34. Into what estate did
the
Fall bring
Mankind?
The Pilgrim's Progress
The character of Christian in John Bunyan's The
Pilgrim's
Progress, was a Calvinist. His journey is the story of what a
Calvinist
must do to achieve salvation: struggle up a long and difficult and
narrow
path and be confronted by many obstacles and temptations. It explains
why
Christian is so focused on his own salvation in the book, and why he is
so hard on himself for straying from the straight and narrow path that
leads to his salvation. It explains why Calvinists were so often
hostile
to Catholics for the sacrament of pennance. Calvinists could never
accept
the idea of forgiveness for sins. Sins, they believed, were shouldered
by everyone from birth. The characters of Formalist and Hypocrisy
represent
Bunyan's view of Catholics who do not have to follow the straight and
narrow
path from the beginning, but who can confess and be forgiven -- jump
over
the wall half way along the path.
Please read the selection, The
Pilgrim's Progress and then answer the following questions:
35. Why is the man in rags
distressed?
36. What way does Goodwill
instruct
Christian to go?
37. Passion represents ___
and
Patience
represents ___ ?
38. Why do Formalist and
Hypocrisy
jump over the wall?
39. Who is Apollyon?
40. Why is Faithful killed?
41. What was the Vanity
Fair?
42. How do Christian and
Hopeful end
up at Doubting Castle, and how do they escape the dungeon there?
43. How is life in paradise
described?
Poor Richard's Almanac
Please read the selection, Poor
Richard's Almanac, and then fill in the following blanks :
44. "The used ___ is
always ___."
45. "Lost ___ is never ___
."
46. "There are no ___
without
___ "
47. "One ___ is worth two
___."
48. "If you would know the
value of
___, go and ___ ."
49. "Rather go to bed ___
than
rise
___."
50. "Tis hard for an empty
___
to ___."
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