Thomas Hooker & Connecticut
This Puritan minister founded Connecticut after leaving Massachusetts.
Who was Thomas Hooker?
This 1639 document is considered one of the first written constitutions.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This war in England was fought between Royalists and Parliamentarians.
What is the English Civil War?
This man is known as the “father of modern education.”
Who was John Amos Comenius?
This man founded the Quakers.
Who was George Fox?
This colony was founded with Hooker’s leadership.
What is Connecticut?
John Winthrop believed only this group should be allowed to vote.
Who are church members?
This king was executed after losing the war.
Who was Charles I of England?
Comenius believed education should be available to this group.
Who are all people?
Quakers called themselves this.
What are “Friends”?
The name “Connecticut” means this.
What is “long river”?
Thomas Hooker believed this group should have voting rights.
Who are all men?
This leader ruled England after the war.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
This scientist is known as the “father of modern chemistry.”
Who was Robert Boyle?
This colony was founded by Quaker William Penn.
What is Pennsylvania?
This town, later called Cambridge, was Hooker’s first settlement.
What is Newtown?
The Fundamental Orders helped shape this system of government.
What is American democracy?
This colonial war began after nine colonists were killed.
What is the Pequot War?
This law explains the relationship between gas pressure and volume.
What is Boyle's Law?
Quakers worshiped in this unusual way.
What is sitting in silence/no formal sermons?
Thomas Hooker disagreed with this leader over voting rights.
Who was John Winthrop?
Colonists destroyed a Pequot village, killing about this many people.
What is about 400?
Boyle challenged the idea of these four elements.
What are air, water, fire, and earth?
Quakers were persecuted for refusing to do this.
What is take oaths?
Hooker fled to this country before coming to America.
What is the Netherlands?
Survivors of the Pequot War were often sold into this.
What is slavery?
Boyle distinguished between these two types of matter.
What are elements and compounds?
This law in 1689 granted religious tolerance.
What is the Act of Toleration?
This religious official pressured Hooker to leave England.
Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury?
The English Civil War was caused by conflicts over these issues.
What are religion, power, and the monarchy?
By George Fox’s death, there were about this many Quakers.
What is about 100,000?
Hooker believed this group should have voting rights.
Who are all men?