Ch. 4 Northern Colonies in the 17th Century
How did the English monarchs James I and Charles I react to the ideas of Puritan reformers?
Both enforced conformity to the Church of England
John Winthrop referred to Anne Hutchinson and her followers as antinomians, people who believed that
Christians could be saved by faith alone
The goal of the Puritans who founded Massachusetts Bay colony was to
reform the Church of England
Why was the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company unique?
It allowed the government of the company to be located in the colony
Which major change occurred in New Netherland in 1664?
New Netherland became New York
According to the Puritan doctrine of predestination, how could one achieve salvation after death?
Puritans could do nothing to alter God's ruling on their fate
Why did Puritans keep churches out of the civil government of New England?
Puritans did not want to emulate the Church of England
Seventeenth-century New England's most important export was
fish
The Navigation Acts of the 1650s and 1660s were designed to regulate colonial trade in order to
yield revenues for the crown and English merchants
Which characteristics were present in Puritan communities in the first half of the seventeenth century?
A high degree of religious conformity
Although King James I was antagonistic to Puritanism, he sponsored which innovation that contributed to the spread of their ideals?
An English translation of the Bible
James II was a zealous supporter of which religion?
Catholicism
Why did Charles II make William Penn the proprietor of a new colony?
Charles II hoped to rid England of Quakers
Which problem did the Halfway Covenant address?
Declining church membership
How did the Boston church punish Anne Hutchinson?
Excommunication
Members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, believed that
God spoke to each individual through an "inner light"
Which action taken by King Charles I in 1629 convinced many Puritans their only hope of avoiding religious oppression in England was to emigrate?
He dissolved Parliament, in which many Puritans served
How did King Henry VIII respond to the Protestant Reformation?
He made himself the head of the Church of England
Which statement explains the diversity in the New Netherland colony?
Immigrants came from a variety of countries and had a variety of religious backgrounds
Why was the town meeting significant in seventeenth-century New England?
Its democratic participation was unprecedented during the seventeenth century
Who argued that the Puritans should be "a city upon a hill" that would inspire the rest of the world?
John Winthrop
Why did the Wampanoag Indians attack New England settlements in 1675?
New Englanders had been steadily encroaching on land the Indians needed to survive
The majority of people who were accused of being witches were part of which demographic?
Older women
Who served as leaders of Quaker congregations?
Ordinary men and women
New England Puritanism owed its religious roots to the
Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century
Which statement characterizes sixteenth-century English Puritanism?
Puritans wanted to rid the Church of England of many features of Catholicism
The Pilgrims who migrated to Plymouth colony were part of which religious following?
Separatists
Which factor allowed New England's population to continue to grow steadily during the seventeenth century?
The cold weather minimized the spread of life-threatening illnesses
Why did the English continue the Dutch policy of religious toleration in seventeenth-century New York?
The diversity of the population prevented them from imposing a uniform religion
Which consequence did religious toleration in Quaker-dominated Pennsylvania have for colonists?
They did not have to pay taxes to maintain a state-supported church
How did Puritans react when King Charles I dissolved Parliament in 1629?
They prepared to leave England because they had lost their political voice
Which statement describes what happened to Puritans in England during the mid-seventeenth century?
They ruled the nation from 1649 to 1660
Who left Massachusetts for Connecticut in 1636 after clashing with church leaders over the requirements for church membership?
Thomas Hooker
After Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691, the defining characteristic of Massachusetts citizenship became
Wealth
How did New England communities treat Quakers?
With ruthless severity
Unlike most other immigrant groups in American history, the migration to Puritan New England included
a great number of complete families
By 1676, King Philip's War left New England settlers with
an enduring hatred of Indians
The Puritans, who described themselves as Separatists, believed that
the Church of England was corrupt beyond redemption
Following the settlement at Plymouth, larger Puritan settlements in New England were sponsored by
the Virginia Company
Most Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay colony were either farmers or
tradesmen
During most of the seventeenth century, New Netherland was
under the control of the Dutch
According to Puritanism, dissent was a result of
mistaken beliefs
Compared to the colonies to the north and south, the population of New Netherland was
diverse
William Penn's goal for his new colony was to
establish a genuinely Quaker colony in the Americas
The official Indian policy in seventeenth-century Pennsylvania
instructed agents to respect the land claims of nearby tribes
By the 1680s, New England's religious consensus had weakened to the point that
only 15 percent of adult males were church members in some towns
In 1686, England created the Dominion of New England, a new government consolidation that
placed all colonies north of Maryland under more direct control by England
In 1688, The Glorious Revolution in England influenced American colonists to
rise up against royal authority in the northern colonies
By the end of the seventeenth century, colonial commerce was characterized by
strong ties to England because of royal supervision of merchants and shippers
