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STUDY NOTES
Chapter 2

This chapter is quite significant, not only to our study of US history, but in order to be prepared for the Regents exam in US History & Government—they like this stuff, too! As always, keep some incidents & examples in mind...

MAIN POINTS:

Heritage:

Spiritual: Wycliffe – Tyndale – Henry VIII (what did he do?)...not to mention Luther, Calvin – and Gutenberg!

Political:

1215: ___________ _____________ forced to sign the ________________ ______________ .

• precedent: ________________________________________________________

• establishment of _____________________________ , England's representative assembly.

Motivation: Englishmen migrated to the colonies mostly for freedom and economic opportunity. The "Three Freedoms" were:

1.___________________________ freedom

(Two largest groups: ______________________ & ____________________ )

2. ___________________________ freedom

(England heading for civil war – Monarchists vs. Parliamentarians)

3. ___________________________ freedom

(England's three big economic problems were:

1. ____________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________

Colonies:

"Lost Colony" was ___________________________
Jamestown (date: _________ )

economic problem: the ________________________ system

Captain _____________________________ saved it

winter of 1609 – 1610 was "____________________ _____________ "

precedents:

House of _______________________ (representative body)
Bacon's Rebellion showed _________________________________________

New Plymouth

settled by: ____________________________

(2 groups: _____________________ & ___________________ )

governor: _____________________________________

(wrote ________________________________________ )

precedents:

___________________________________________ (written before they landed)

important because: _________________________________________________

separation of _____________ & ________________

Massachusetts Bay Colony (included city of ___________________ )

settled by: ____________________________ who

• expected persecution (which sparked the "_____________________________") &

• desired to found a "_____________________________________________"

governor: ____________________________________

Connecticut

precedent: first written constitution, the ________________________________________

Rhode Island

founded by: __________________________________

precedent:

• separation of church & state
...(like Plymouth, but Plymouth was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony)

• religious liberty (Puritans considered Rhode Island to be a haven for heretics--!!!)

Maryland – intended as a haven for Catholics; religious liberty practiced
New York - originally Dutch; Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant
Georgia – intended as a refuge for prisoners of debt to work it off

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut: first voluntary American union, a precedent for the United States.

Connections: (essay material)

• Can you trace the moral and spiritual foundations of our culture from early English history through
the establishment of the first several colonies, using names and examples?

• Can you trace the political foundations of our country in the same way?
• Can you give a short history of several of our early colonies, with names and important events?
Why and how were they founded? What happened in the earliest years to help them succeed – if they
did – and what was life like in them?