HISTORICAL PERIOD #2: AMERICAN SPIRIT: CHAPTER TWO
COMPLETING THE THIRTEEN COLONIES





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    PROLOGUE

1. What was Puritanism called in the colonies? ______________________________

2. What was the Puritan policy toward dissenters? ___________________________
 
 

    A. THE PLANTING OF PLYMOUTH

Ch.2,A1: William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620

3. What three hardships did prospective migrants anticipate? ________________

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Ch.2,A3: William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1623

4. How was land owned in Plymouth between 1620 and 1623? ____________________

5. What two benefits of private ownership does Bradford cite? _______________

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B. CONFORMITY IN THE BAY COLONY

Ch.2,B1: Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony of MassachusettsBay
(1765), 1636

6. What occupation was held by John Cotton? _________________________________

7. What three things does Cotton advocate in the exercise of political power?

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Ch.2,B2: C.F. Adams, Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, 1892
(from court records, 1637)

8. Why was Anne Hutchinson banished? ________________________________________

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Ch.2,B3: John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, (1853)

9. What two types of liberty does Winthrop cite and what does each lead to?

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Ch.2,B4: Edward Burrough, A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and
Martyrdom of the People of God, Called Quakers, in New England, 1660

10. What tortures did Massachusetts Quakers suffer? _________________________

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    C. THE RULE OF BIBLICAL LAW

Ch.2,C1: Blue Laws of Connecticut, 1672.

11. What was the penalty for a 17-year old who was rebellious? ______________
 

Ch.2,C2: Reverend Solomon Stoddard, An Answer to Some Cases of Conscience
Respecting the Country, 1722

12. What Biblical precedent does Stoddard cite for the colonists taking

    Indian hunting lands? ___________________________________________________

13. What has made the land that was bought cheaply from the Indians more
    valuable? _______________________________________________________________
 
 

    D. FOUNDING THE MIDDLE COLONIES

Ch.2,D1: The Representation of New Netherland, 1650.

14. What two things did the eleven New Netherlands colonists accuse Peter

    Stuyvesant of in his role as governor? __________________________________

15. What five things do the colonists ask the government of Holland for?

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