Chapter 4 A. The Unhealthy Chesapeake Life was nasty because of : Malaria‚ dysentery‚ and typhoid. Half the people didn’t survive till they were 20. as a result‚ population grew very slowly. Only through immigrants‚ mostly male adults‚ who died soon after arriving. Outnumbered women 6:1‚ women weren’t singly for long families were few and small‚ men couldn’t find wives‚ people died‚ etc. Many pregnancies happened for unmarried girls Yet‚ colonists eventually developed immunity to diseases‚
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Terms for Chapter 2 Sea Dogs-roving English ships that plundered Spanish treasure ships (1560s) St. Augustine–fort Spain created in Florida 1565 to protect the route of its treasure fleet against English ships‚ French settlers‚ hostile Indians (1st permanent Euro. settlement in US) Comprehensive Orders for New Discoveries-new policy Spanish leaders introduced after military setbacks to pacify Indians by Christianizing missionaries not conquistadores (1573) Ecomenderos-privelaged spanish landowners
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by Michael E. McCabe Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require constant self-examination to see that they are sinners and unworthy of God’s Grace. Because man had broken the Covenant of Works when Adam had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge‚ God offered a new covenant to Abraham’s people which held that election to Heaven was merely a possibility. In the Puritan religion‚ believers dutifully recognized the negative aspects of their humanity rather than the gifts they
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1622 John Rolfe 1630 MA Bay Colony founded by John Winthrop 1632 Pequot war starts 1634 Maryland Colony founded 1636 Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams expelled 1637 Anne Hutchinson expelled 1638 Pequot war ended 1651 Navigation Act 1649 Maryland Toleraction Act 1639 Fundamental Orders of CT 1675 King Philips War 1660 Stuart Restoration 1662 Halfway Covenant 1676 William Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon‚ Bacon’s Rebellion 1680 Pueblo Revolt 1681 William Penn – Pennsylvania 1690
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before the Revolution. However‚ A New England Town by Professor Kenneth Lockridge attempts to describe how the colonies in America developed by following the progress of a typical Puritan colonial town‚ Dedham‚ Massachusetts‚ from its inception in 1636 through its first one hundred years. It is Lockridge’s belief that colonial history can be better learned through thoroughly examining one specific town instead of shallowly studying many. Because the development of Dedham was mirrored throughout
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Chapter 1 New World Beginnings 33‚000 B.C. - A.D. 1783 225 Million Years Ago - Pangaea started to break apart. 10 Million Years Ago - North America was shaped by nature - Canadian Shield 2 Million Years Ago - Great Ice Age 35‚000 Years Ago - The oceans were glaciers and the sea level dropped‚ leaving an isthmus connecting Asia
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entertainment a) Music b) Radio c) Cinema d) Television 9) Expansion or definition of America’s borders – Through diplomacy or war -Treaty of Paris of 1783 – September 3‚ 1783 10) Growth of education -Harvard University is founded – Oct 28‚ 1636 -Massachusetts Act is Passed – Lays Foundation for Compulsory Education – 1642 -Yale University is founded – 1701 -Princeton University is founded - 1746 11) Growth of political democracy -House of Burgesses meets for the first time – Aug. 9‚
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"Young Goodman Brown" Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require constant self-examination to see that they are sinners and unworthy of God’s Grace. Because man had broken the Covenant of Works when Adam had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge‚ God offered a new covenant to Abraham’s people which held that election to Heaven was merely a possibility. In the Puritan religion‚ believers dutifully recognized the negative aspects of their humanity rather than the gifts they possessed
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Plymouth colony. Throughout the first winter‚ half of the original settlers died and survivors whom remained constructed the Mayflower Compact which allowed political and religious life In Plymouth with no affiliation to the Church of England. North Salem remained obedient to England and thus resulted in North Plymouth having contributed land and a civil court to rule. From result‚ John Winthrop became elected governor in England and was set to rule over North Plymouth alongside a thousand
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America (Massachusetts Bay) in the 17th century‚ in New England‚ situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The territory administered by the colony included much of present-day central New England‚ including portions of the U.S. states of Massachusetts‚ Maine‚ New Hampshire‚ Rhode Island‚ and Connecticut. Territory claimed but never administered by the colonial government extended as far west as the
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