EH-Chapter+3

CH 3. · The colonies had different “cultures” depending on their location. · The South was mainly for growing crops. The North was for religion. · Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation. · Calvinism=humans were corrupt and had a predetermined destiny. · Separatsits of Holland sailed on the Mayflower to the New World for their religioun. · The Separatists settled outside of the Virginia Company’s territory and had no rights to their land. · The settlers signed the Mayflower Compact which eventually lead to a form of selfgovernment. · Many settlers died and when the Mayflower sailed back to Europe, all of the Puritans stayed in Plymouth. · Non-Separatist Puritans settled in Massachusetts in 1629. · Only male landowners were allowed to vote and speak at town meetings. · Religious leaders had huge influence in the Massachusetts Bay. · The Bay Colonists first came up with a separation of Church and State. · The Bay Colonists had social and ethics laws in their community. · Colonists banished people with extremely radical ideas. · Roger Williams created the first Baptist Church in America and established complete religious freedom. · Rhode Island became a “sewer” of people accepting outcasts from other colonies. · Fundamental orders were a model of the Constitution for Connecticut. · As settlements expanded, wars broke out with the Indians and resulted in a reduction of Indian lives. · Four colonies grouped together in 1643 to form the New England Confederation. · The New England Confederation allowed two members of each colony to represent the colony regardless of size. · The Dominion of New England was created by Old England to more or less control the colonies. · Smuggling of goods became common when England began to control more over seas. · Sir Edmund Andfros set up in Boston and began restricting courts, press, schools, and land. · Andros began to tax colonists without talking to representatives. · Old England overthrew King James II which collapsed the Dominion of New England and New England sailed Andros back to Old England. · English judges, clerks, and customs officials began to work in and corrupt American courts. · The Netherlands gained independence form Spain in the sixteenth century. · The Dutch East India Company sent Henry Hudson to explore northeastern America. Hudson thought he found a waterway through the continent but didn’t. · The Dutch West India Company bought Manhattan Island for pennies form Indians. · New Amsterdam/ AKA New York City, was originally an area of work for the company. · Indians attacked New Yorkers which made settlers build walls for protection. · Swedes settled New Sweden on the Delaware River in 1638. · The Dutch sent out a military expedition in 1655 because of the new Swedish settlement. · The Dutch took control of the Swedish settlement. · The English eventually took over Peter Stuyvesant and his Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam and renamed it New York. · The Dutch are responsible for many names in New York. · Quakers very emotional in meetings and would take no oaths because they believed Jusus didn’t want them to. · King of England gave William Penn Pennsylvania as an agreement for a debt owed to his father. · Penn wanted land for Quakers. · Freedom of Worship was in Pennsylvania. · Treason was the only reason for the death penalty. · Quakers disliked slavery and had no formal military. · New Jersey started in 1664 from area of the Duke of York. · New Jersey was originally two “colonies” before being combined. · There was a lot of industry in the middle colonies. · Technology began increasing in the 1700s. · Americans were thriving away from England.