Massachusetts Bay
Why did Puritans leave England?
Because they believed the church of England was too corrupt to reform (they also wanted land)
What was the only form of Chirstianity (or any religion) allowed in Jamestown?
Because they believed the church of England was to corrupt to reform (they also wanted land)
What economic system was measured by the quantity of precious metals a nation possessed?
Mercantilism
Why did the colonists think it was unjust to be taxed?
"no taxation without representation."
What themes were often used by clergy to justify the Revolution
Christian themes
Why does Fea argue the Mass Bay Colony was not truly Christian?
They failed to act in a Christian fashion via their behaviors, especially treatment of Native Americans p.90-91
What was the main goal of those who came to Jamestown?
They failed to act in a Christian fashion via their behaviors, especially treatment of Native Americans p. 90-91
What was the purpose of a colony?
To serve it's mother country
What party "defended political and Protestant liberty against the ever-present threat of political and religious tyranny?"
The Whigs
What was the primary goal of the First Continental Congress?
form a proper response to the Coercive Acts
What relationship between church and state in the Mass Bay colonies in the 17th century? (give one piece of evidence for you answer)
They were expected to work closely together:
-right to vote and hold office was determined by if someone was a good Christian "visible saint" p.86
-laws of the colony were grounded in OT p.87
-"City on a Hill" sermon
(a) What was the form of labor before slavery in Jamestown and (b) what was the key problem with it?
(a) Indentured servitude
(b) When they were freed, they lived in frontier land with poor soil and were attacked by Native Americans p.83
What war renewed the appreciation for the colonists Protestant British identity?
French and Indian War (7 years war)
What Act angered the colonists because they were filled with fears of French religious and political tyranny that they thought Britain was endorsing? (which would undermine Protestant and political liberties)
Quebec Act
Name a group the founders cited more than twice as much as the Bible
Enlightenment philosophes, Whigs, classical authors
What was the reaction of the government to people who held beliefs different from Protestantism? (give one example)
It removed them from the colony:
-Anne Hutchinson p.89
-Roger Williams p.89
-Quaker May Dyer (killed) p.88
Why did Jamestown almost not survive?
Selfishness and materialism of early settlers p.85
What were the series of laws that made sure that the British alone would benefit from American trade?
The Navigation Acts
One of the three reasons for opposition to the Tea Act came
1) lower prices on tea meant England was tricking the colonists into forgetting the already existing tax on tea
2) merchants who were not chosen to sell the cheaper tea were unhappy about being left out of a good business opportunity
3) hurt smugglers
What did the "Declaration and Resolves" do?
reaffirmed the colonists rights to "life, liberty, and property"
OR
echoed fears about the establishment of a "Roman Catholic religion" in Quebec
Why did Mass Bay fail as a "Christian nation"?
The people didn't have the same religious zeal as the leaders and were forced into it by laws p.90, p.
What was the London Company's "desire" (other than profit) for their colony in the New World?
What is bringing "human civility" spreading Christianity to Native Americans ("people who as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God")? p.80
"Whatever the colonies understood about the meaning of [blank], they learned from the British." Fill in the blank.
liberty
How many references did Dickinson make to God in Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, which urged colonists to boycott British goods in response to the Townshed Acts?
4 (but largely tangential to his dominant political argument)
Who were the "enemies of American Liberty?"
people published in the Gazette for not following the rules in "the Association"