Social studies 2
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- lawyer & devout Christian followers were puritans
- John Winthrop
- wanted simpler forms of worship
- Puritans
- well educated & sat on house of commons
- Puritans
- who disapproved of the puritans
- Charle I
- What did Charles I do to the Puritans?
- cancelled charters, expelled from Universities & jailed some
- Puritans were granted a charted to form what colony in New England?
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vowed to base their society on what?
- Biblical laws & teachings
- Why were settlers attracted to the new colony?
- Cheap land, chance to start a business
- Who was chosen as the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
- John Winthrop
- Who had the right to vote under the charter
- Stockholders who invested into the Massachusetts Bay Company
- Most settlers, who were not stockholders...
- resented taxes and laws
- who did Puritan leaders want kept out of government
- non-Puritans
- ____ was an assembly who were elected representatives by male church members
- General Court
- _______ was the large movement of people from England to Massachusetts from 1629-1640
- Great Migration
- where most settlers went; it grew to be the colony's largest town
- Boston
- Who left MA with about 100 settlers because he wanted strict limits on government
- Thomas Hooker
- Hooker and the settlers settled in a town along the CT River and called it what?
- Hartford
- Hooker's plan of government was called what?
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
- how did this new plan differ from MA's government?
- 1. allowed all men who owned property to vote 2. limited the powers of government 3. expanded the idea of representative gov.
- What happened to CT in 1662?
- It became a separate colony
- Who was the founder/leader of Rhode Island?
- Roger Williams
- Roger Williams was a young 1)____ who believed the Puritans had 2)________
- 1) minister 2) too much power
- Hooker believed what about church and state
- they should be completely separate
- Hooker believed that _______ is the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs
- toleration
- Roger Williams bought land from Indians and called his settlement _____________
- Rhode Island
- Williams' colony practiced ________, _________________, and ____________________
- toleration, freedom of religion, and all white men had the right to vote
- _____________ was a devout Puritan who was banished from MA and fled to Rhode Island because she questioned the authority of Puritan ministers
- Anne Hutchinson
- Anne became an important symbol of the struggle of ____________
- religious freedom