1.) There were several different types of colonies in the New world, you couuld either live in a Charter colony, a proprietary colony, or a royal colony. From 1720- 1740 what is known as the great awakening swept through the people and by the mid 1750's, New england had a very high level of literacy. When wanting a career, people would be apprentice or learning assistants to those who's careers they wanted to follow.


2.) Women cooked, made butter, amd cheese, perserved food, spun yard, and tended the chickens and cows. Also in some areas, women worked in the fields next to their husbands.

3.) It prevented them from trading with who they wanted to and making more money. It also caused them to have to pay more when shipping goods.

4.) Andrew Hamilton argued that free speech was a basic right of english people and stated that though it may be offensive, the article was true.

5.) The great awakening lead the the formation of new churches, emphasis on education, and belief grows that all people are equal before god.

6.) Stephen Daye in 1639. Before the printing press news was spread by word of mouth.

Chapter 4 section 1

1.) Crops became very important for the colonies salvation. Though the northern colonies usually did subsistence farming and didn't grow enough to sell in the triangular trade, the south relied a lot on their crops. It is what they used to trade with the English and make their money. Also, in the southern colonies rice and tobacco were used as cash crops.

2.) In the middle colonies there was some harvesting and also some home-based crafts. There were larger businesses too such as lumbering and mining and small-scale manufacturing. A big employment was a iron mill in New Jersey.

3.) The colonies grew just enough for them to survive but traded things made by the women. With the availability of lumber and fish new English thrived. They also had a good trade system with the West Indies and West Africa.

4.) Similarities- Main economic activity. Differences- Southern: center of the colony, major trade, slaves, Large. Northern: Small, Subsistence farming, farms on the outskirt, no slaves

5.) Well the success was built on the idea that one human cold own another. They probably said that, isnce they held other religious views, were sinners.

6.) Rice, tobacco, indigo, and furs. Goods, Molasses.

Pequots Vs. Settlers

Comprehension Questions:
#3.) The puritans wanted religious freedom and they were planning to set up colonies. They had the intention to live there.

#4.) Land and property: Pequots- You don't own the land your just using it for the time being. Puritans- Believed you had to establish settlements in order to own it. You had to have buildings and live there all year
Division of labor and gender: Pequots- The woman did most the work including farming and taking care of things around the fort while the men went out into the forest all day, hunting or trained for fighting. Women also had a big say in thing and decisions in the native life. The Puritans- The men did most the labor while the woman were more of house wives. The pequots thought the puritans babied there wives.
Warfare: Puritans believe that the idea of total war was a way to get rid of a total culture but natives didn't practice total warfare. The natives spared the woman and children and usually adopted them into their village but the puritans would wipe everyone out so there would be no way they could come back.

#5.) English were there to establish permanent establishments, the dutch were just there for trade. So the dutch wanted to be friends with the natives and coexisted, were as the English wanted the land the natives had and to control the trade. The dutch were friends with the natives but the English and natives were not on good terms and didn't trust one an other.

#12.) It showed success for the English and that it was possible to over take the natives and gain their land. It also made it acceptable to take over the native land by total war. The reason that the massacre of Mystic happened was because the puritans believed god thought it was right.

Extended Activity:
#3.)

Primary Source:
#1.) I believed Winthrop envisioned a conoly where everyone works together to survive and you take care of eachother. Yes I think a colony can learn to work together, thats the way the natives lived together, so it is within reach. Though the puritans and natives were very different so maybe it is not within the puritans reach.

#2.) He is saying they will stick out, and God will be watching them.

#3.) No because they did not ever consider the natives equal. They only used the natives, and no I do not believe the puritan upheld Winthrop's vision in their dealing iwth Natives. Since the beginning the Puritans treated that natives as lesser beings. They never tried to livve as one wiht the natives, they would pretned to like them until they got everything they needed from the natives, thatn they'd try to over take them.

Section 4 Assesment, Chapter 3

1.)

There were many different ways people acquired land in to new colonies. In some colonies, constitutions were made that covered subjects such as land distribution and social ranking. A lot of the time, you'd receive more land if you brought more settlers with you. Most times this worked for the rich. So the poor people would come to the new world as indentured servants. These people had their way to the new world paid for but in order to pay back their debt, they worked for those who paid their way for a certain period of time. There were also those known as tenant farmers, who paid an annual reant and worked for an estate folder for a fixed number of days each year. At this time, missions were also occuring which are religious settlements established to convert people to a particular faith.

2.) They had little interest in large-scale settlement in North America, they were mainly concerned with fishing and trapping animals for fur.

3.) She started to establish rights for woman and played a large role in the government by doing things such as putting down a rebellion from neighboring virgina and she also took charge of paying Marylands troops. She was also americas first lawyer.

4.) Yes because he showed it was possible so I believe it would have sparked flames in others.

5.) Spain -> Most of Mexico, The caribbean and Central and South America. Also the Western and southern parts of the US. France -> Northern Canada

6.) Virginia. Indigo and Rice. Charles Town

section assessment 3

1.) Another one of the early colonies was New amsterdam. The only dutch colony, they tried to get those that were coming over to bring more settlers by offering land. if you brought 50 settlers with you, you were given large amounts of land. By being one of the weathly landowners that aquired land this way you were part of a small group known as the patroons. Even though the dutch tried hard to get new and more settlers to come and live in New Amsterdam, there just weren't enough and so in 1664 England took over New Amsterdam. King Charles the second gave New Amsterdam to his brother, the Duke of York to run. New Amsterdam was renamed to New york and ran as a proprietary colony, making one person all the land and in charge of the government. Another Colony ran by the English was Pennsylvania, there were a group of people here called the quakers who had different beliefs. They thought everyone was equaled. They were also pacifists, and refused to fight in wars. This scared the weathly and other because they believed it threatened established traditions, and so Quakers were fined, jailed and even executed.


2.) Gave the colonists the right to elect representatives to the legislative assembly.

3.)He believed that the land belonged to the natives, and that settlers should pay for it. he also negotiated the first of several treaties with the local Native Americans.

4.) The Quakers believed that every individual had an "inner light" that could guide him or her to salvation. They believed church services and officials were unnecessary, which the puritans didnt.

5.) New York -> Proprietary Colony, one man controlled the government
New Jersey -> had a representative colony who would make local laws and set taxes
Pennsylvania ->North: could elect representiatives to the legislative assembly, South: could form their own legislature.

6.) The Middle Colonies. Products: Grain, Fish, Rum, Cattle, Lumber, and Iron. Grain, Cattle, Lumber, Rum and Iron.

Chapter 3 Page 80

1.) In the 1600 many people in england were dissent and wanted to escape persecution for their religious beliefs. There were to main groups, the Puritans and the Separatists. The Puritans wanted to reform the Anglican Church and had little toleration for those that did not share the same religious beliefs; where as the Separatists, also considered pilgrims, wanted to set up their own church. Both groups established colonies in the new world but before going ashore the pilgrims set up what is known as the Mayflower Compact, this was like their constitution.

2.) They wanted religious freedom.

3.) In Rhode Island people would not be prosecuted for their religious practices.

4.) It was a write up of how their government would be, sort of like there constitution of their time.

5.) The colonists interact with the Native Americans -> Trade ->Constant fight over land -> Helped settlers adapt to the new life

6.) Fur, rum, and lumber were products from New Hampshire.

Questions from chapter 3, section 1

1.) One of the best known colonies in the New world is Jamestown, located in now an day Virginia. It was established in 1606 when several charters decided to try and successfully claim a settlement for England. The group that established Jamestown was known as the Virginia Company. The reason the virginia company was capable of being successful was because it was a joint- stock company in which investor bought part of the company. After it was establish, inorder to keep order, ten colonist in virginia including jamestown sent two men known as burgesses as representative to an assembly.

2.) The main reason the virginia company established settlements was to make money.

3.) When colonists couldn't find gold or silver in Jamestown, they learned to grow tobacco.

4.) Because a lot of other countries were already setting up colonist in the new world and england didnt have one yet. Plus the Colony was supposed to be a way to make mor money.

5.) Growth of Jamestown -> Tobacco and the slave trade

6.) 30 % of the settlers where children