Advanced Placement United States History

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Advanced PlacementUnited States History

• Chapter Three/Four
• Kennedy/Cohen/Bailey
• The American Pageant
• Lecture Outline

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Topics

• Settling the Northern Colonies
• New England Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode
  Island, New Hampshire
• Era of Salutary Neglect

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Topics

• Dominion of New England
• Puritan Lifestyles
• The Middle Colonies
• New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania

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New England Colonies

• Massachusetts (including Maine, Plymouth
  Plantation)
• Connecticut
• Rhode Island
• New Hampshire

Colonial Flag sometimes called the Flag of New
England
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Calvinism/Puritanism

• John Calvin
• Presbyterians
• Huguenots
• Dutch Reform
• Church
• Puritans

Martin Luther
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Puritanism

• Predestination
• Religious Schism between Anglicans and Puritans
• English Puritans
• Church of England

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Puritanism

• Henry VIII
• Elizabeth I
• Separatists
• Non-Conformists

Henry VIII
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Puritan Churches
Meeting House, Rhode Island, 1789
Family Pews
Pulpit
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Puritan Churches
Puritan Meeting Houses
Rhode Island
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Notes

• James I (James IV)
• Stuart Dynasty
• Plymouth
• Plantation
• (Pilgrims)
• Separatists
• Mayflower
• Compact

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Notes

• William Bradford
• Capt. Miles Standish
• Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629
• Charles I
• Mass. Charter
• John Winthrop

J. Winthrop
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Notes

• Boston, Massachusetts
• Great Migration
• 75,000 Puritan Refugees
• 18,000 Flee to
• New England
• 57,000 Flee to
• British West
• Indies

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Image of Puritans
1845 Portrait of Pilgrims
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Image of Puritans
1640s Portrait of John Winthrop by van Dyke
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Image of Puritans
Mason children of New England, 1670
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Image of Puritans
Elizabeth Wensley of Boston, 1670
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Image of Puritans
Elizabeth Freake Mary, 1671/74
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Image of Puritans
Lithograph of Arrest of a Salem Witch
1883
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Image of Puritans
19th Century Images of Salem Witches
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Religion Among the Puritans

• Bay Colony Theocracy or Oligarch?
• Election Day
  Sermons
• Visible Elect
• aka Saints
• Testimonials
• Conversions

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Notes

• Massachusetts General Court
• Quakers
• Congregationalists

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Notes

• Rhode Island Roger Williams
• Providence, RI
• Baptist Church
• R.Williams
• Introduces
• Religious
• Tolerance to
• Rhode Island

Roger Williams
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The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, 1644.
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to
be inacted and inforced in any civil state true
civility and Christianity may both flourish in a
state or Kingdome, notwithstanding the
permission of divers and contrary consciences,
either of Jew or Gentile.
Roger Williams
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Notes

• 1644 Rhode Island receives
• Charter from Parliament
• Connecticut River Colony
• Hartford, 1635
• Rev. Thomas Hooker, 1636
• New Haven, 1638
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639

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Notes

• 1623, Sir Ferdinando Gorges
• founds Maine
• 1677, Massachusetts Bay Colony purchases Maine
• 1679, Charles II grants New Hampshire separate
  charter as royal colony

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New England Confederation, 1643

• Bay Colony, Plymouth Plantation, Connecticut
  Valley, New Haven
• Maine and Rhode Island refused admission as
  heretic colonies

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Dominion of New England, 1686-1689

• Governor Sir Edmund Andros
• Glorious Revolution, 1688-89
• William and Mary, House of Orange

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Lifestyles of Puritan New England

• Puritan Oligarchy
• blue laws
• Townships
• Covenants
• Town Meetings
• The elect, or visible elect
• Testimonials
• Half-way Covenants, jeremiads

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Roots of Democracy in Puritanism

• Congregationalist form of church government
• Town Meetings

Norman Rockwells The Four Freedoms, 1943
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Three-Prong Attack upon Puritanism

1. Social limited land overpopulation leads to
   division of families, and migration
2. Religious decline of fervor piety within
   church membership
3. Political lost of charters and self-government

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Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692
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Holland Sweden in North America

• 1609 Dutch East India Company
• Henry Hudson
• 1623 Dutch
• West India
• Company

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• New Holland - New Amsterdam
• Dutch Reform Church

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• 1638
• New
• Sweden
• Delaware
• Bay

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Credits

• Martin Luther - http//www.luther.de/
• John Calvin - http//www.gettysburg.edu/s481585/J
  OHNCALVINANDCALVINISM.HTML
• Stained Glass - http//www.sgm.abelgratis.com/subf
  ram.htm
• Henry VII - http//tudorhistory.org/henry8/henryho
  lbein.jpg
• Rhode Island Meeting House - http//memory.loc.gov
  /cgi-bin/ampage?collIdhhphotofileNameme/me0000/
  me0077/photos/browse.dbactionbrowserecNum0tit
  le2Alna20Meetinghouse,20State20Rt.20218,20Al
  na,20Lincoln20County,20MEdisplayType1itemLin
  kD?hh1./temp/ammem_L38d
• Rhode Island Meeting Houses - http//memory.loc.go
  v/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl?path/pnp/habshaer/ri/ri
  0300/ri0314/photostopImages146718pr.jpgtopLinks
  146718pv.jpg,146718pu.tiftitleHABS,RI,5-WICK,1
  -2displayProfile0
• James I - http//www.britannia.com/history/monarch
  s/mon46.html
• Mayflower - http//meltingpot.fortunecity.com/erit
  rea/117/plpl/pl2/miimypage.html
• John Winthrop - http//loki.stockton.edu/gilmorew
  /0colhis/neng09.jpg
• John Winthrop - http//www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/wint
  hrop.htm
• http//www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/wi
  nthrop.html
• Mason children - http//www.thinker.org/fam/educat
  ion/publications/guide-american/01.html
• Elizabeth Wensley - http//www.ocmayflower.org/pil
  grim2.htm
• Elizabeth Freake Mary - http//www.worcesterart.
  org/Collection/Early_American/Artists/unidentified
  _17th/elizabeth_f/catalog.html
• Witches - http//www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/gener
  ic.html
• Preaching - http//www.4america.com/archives/great
  _awakening/
• Rockwell Town Meeting - http//phoenix.about.com
  /library/blrockwell1.htm
• Henry Hudson - http//www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/h
  udson1.html
• New Amsterdam - http//www.nnp.org/documents/index
  .html