SKIT REVIEW:OUTLINE FORMAT (STUDY GUIDE

SAMPLES)Essential Skill: Demonstrate an understanding of events,

concepts, and people central to New England colonial history

Pilgrims◦Who?

◦Separatists – break from church

◦Why came?

◦ Escape religious persecution

◦Charter?

◦VA Co (didn’t apply)

◦Mayflower Compact:

◦Self-Government & Majority Rule

◦Squanto:

◦Pawtuxet Indian helped Pilgrims survive

◦ Thanksgiving:

◦ Feast w/Pilgims & NA

Puritans◦Who?

◦Reformers – “purify” church

◦Why Came?

◦Escape religious persecution

◦Different from Pilgrims?

◦Reform vs. break w/church

◦MA Bay Co:

◦Formed a joint stock co.

◦ John Winthrop:

◦Puritan Governor

◦Commonwealth:

◦Community for “good of the whole”

◦Great Migration:

◦1000s of Puritans left England

“New England Way” & NE Govt.◦Congregation:

◦Churchmembers town

◦Meetinghouse:

◦Held town mtgs

◦Town Meetings:

◦Self-Govt: citizens made laws

◦Self-Government:

◦Elected rep’s to make laws & choose Gov.

◦Who could vote? Hold office?:

◦Only male church members

◦Laws:

◦church att. req.

◦5 Elements of “New England Way”?

◦Duty, Godliness, Hard Work, Honesty, Education (to read Bible)

Challenges to Puritan Way of Life:◦Fundamental Orders of Connecticut:

◦Constitution let non-church ppl vote

◦Roger Williams:

◦Founded RI & 1st Baptist Church; opposed forced church att. & taking NA lands

◦Rhode Island:

◦1636; religious freedom; sep. of church & state

◦Anne Hutchinson:

◦Ppl could worship w/o church, minister, or Bible; exiled 1638

◦Quakers:

◦Ppl could know God thru inner light – no ministers or Bible; treat NAs fairly

King Phillip’s War (1675-6)◦Who? What?

◦Metacom (Wampanoag) led tribes

◦Puritans fought Native Americans

◦When?

◦1675-1676

◦3 Causes:

1. Land Ownership

2. Religion

3. Increasing population of English

◦3 Effects:

◦English won

◦3000 NA killed & 500 enslaved

◦600 English killed & 12 villages destroyed