APUSH Extra-Credit Study Guide on major colonies and people (The beginning)

1. APUSH Extra-Credit Study Guide on major colonies and people (The beginning) Katie Coviello

2. Columbus • Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety two • Who knew what he found would not be true. • Instead of gold, and riches to find, but savages on the other tide. Many would run a and hide, to bide the time they never had. Disease would run from these foreign foes, killing them off from head to toe. These foreigners would lose their time, by the time the ground would fro.

3. Jamestown • Named after King James, but founded by the Joint Stock Company. • The first permanent English settlement.

4. Plymouth • The Puritans, those mainly from England, looking for a new way of life, to escape the King and prosecution. Originally meant to head to Jamestown, a storm had blown them off their course, all the way to Massachusetts. • Upon arrival, the men of the Mayflower, formed their own power, with the Mayflower compact. • This was the first set of laws, created for a future democracy. This was also the first voyage in which the same amount of people came to Plymouth as left England.

5. Maryland • This colony offered religious tolerance, because these settlers were pushed away from their homeland based on religious persecution. Protestants and Catholics alike were welcome, and in this colony, hostilities towards Indians was exempt, and taxes would not be enforced unless the citizens agreed.

6. Anne Hutchinson • The women who defied society in her beliefs (antimonian Heresy), she not only went against the faith of the time, but she was also a women. She was exiled and sentenced to Rhode Island, and later was killed by an Indian attack.

7. Roger Williams • Based on his difference of beliefs on religion and his beliefs of the Massachusettes Bay Charter being immoral because the settlers could gain Indian land, whenever they felt it was okay, and he was expelled from the colony, and was suppose to go back to England, but he left Massachusettes and went to live with Indians. • He later set up Providence in Narangsette bay, and paid the indians for the title of their land. He also creted the first Baptise Church.

8. Old lights vs. New lights • The old lights, were the one’s who still carried on a strict faith and believed in the traditions of the faith, while the new lights, believed emotional involvement and personal commitment was enough. • This awakening, had reshaped the Congregational church, the Presbyterian church, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the German Reformed denomination, and strengthened the small Baptist and Methodist denominations. Unlike the Second Great Awakening, that began about 1800 and which reached out to those who did not attend church as often, the First Great Awakening focused on people who were already church members. Changing their beliefs.

9. The Great Awakening • The First Great Awakening, occurred during the 18th century, in which the citizens of the new world, began to take up their faith again, trying to rebuild intimacy with God. • Colonists learned that religion can be changed on their own beliefs, no longer the church of Englands or anyone else’s, many would break away and form new faiths if they did not agree with the church.

10. Johnathan Edwards • Wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. • A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, which became the go to book for anyone just starting out as a minister/priest. • He would go all over the colonies to bring about the message of faith, and it’s importance.

11. George Whitefield • Another revitalist, during the first great awakening. • Accepted everyone at his sermons and was emotionally driven, and often preached outside to large crowds. • Would go all over the colonies and speak of faith.

12. Massachusettes • People came over in what became known to be the Great Migration, the movement of Puritans. • The was another relgious commonwealth, in which these people could practice their faith freely.

13. New England Colonies • Maine, Massachusettes, Rhode Island, Conneticuit, New Hampshire • Had the most favorable outcome, the settlers here had a longer lifespan than those in the south, and while there was disease it did not run as rampant as it did in the south due to the difference in climate. • In NE the soil was not good for growing due to it’s rocky nature, so fishing and shipping were their major industry, while the south had plantations for growing rice, indigo and tobaccor.

14. Middle Colonies • Temporately favorable, not as cold as new England, but not as warm as the South. • New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. • Had timber, hunting, and fishing.

15. Southern Colonies • The Southern Colonies, were unfavorable, for the time, mosquitoes and the overwhelming heat was the perfect setting for disease to spread, resulting in a lower life span for the settlers. Plantations errupted, and were tended to by endetured servants and slaves, not necessarily african slaves yet, but those who could not pay for the boat ride to the new world, or anyone to poor to care for themselves. • (Carolinas, Georgia, Maryland and Virginia) • Carolina splits into North and South when settlers came and realized that some settlers of virginia were living there.

16. Pequot War • Originallly, those in Plymouth had gotten along with the Natives who taught them how to harvest and how to live through the harsh winter. They even shared a Thanksgiving, but now tensions began to rise, natives wanted their land back, and the settlers refused, inresponse the settlers burned a village down. This occurred after the native epidemic of small pox. • http://www.pequotwar.com/

17. King Phillips War • Brought on by the settlers desire for land, and when a liason between settler and native is killed the relationship crumbles, resulting in the natives banding together to take on the settlers, which ends badly for Metacom and his wife and children are sold into slavery.

18. The King’s Word, Is Law • King George III, had come up with a plan, for all those who had feld England. • They would have to pay a higher tax, and abide by English law. To enforce this feeling, “The Red Coats” or British soldier would come to the thirteen colonies and by the quartering act, would stay with the colonists. • Ben Franklin would not have this, and established the sons of liberty, and began to boycott all things British. He stood for what was right in society, and abiding by a ruler miles away, was immoral.