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 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?