Study these terms and their definitions:
*Dutch:
people who are from the Netherlands, a county of northwest Europe
Governor:
a person who is in charge of an area or group
Pilgrims:
the English colonists who founded the first permanent in the New England
colony of Plymouth
in 1620.
Puritans:
a person from England who traveled to America in the 1600s and 1700s in
search of
religious freedom
*Quaker:
member of a religious group that believed all men were created equal and
believed that all
wars were wrong
Mayflower Compact:
a document drawn up by the Pilgrims that stated that all who
signed the compact
would consult together on rules for the colony
cobbler: a
colonial worker who fixed worn out shoes
blacksmith: a
colonial worker who made iron tools and weapons
Know these important facts about these concepts:
Pilgrims:
they arrived in 1620; settled in
Plymouth, Massachusetts; they made
friends with the
Native Americans and signed a peace treaty that lasted over 50
years; they
celebrated the first Thanksgiving; Squanto helped them learn how to work the
land and plant corn
Puritans: they
didn’t like the Church of England; they lived their lives differently from
other people; schools were very different from today’s schools; children worked
very hard to help with chores and schoolwork; Roger William was a Puritan who
started his own colony of Rhode Island (refer to tb pg. 210 to find out why);
settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
*Middle Colonies: colonists
in the middle colonies came from many different countries (Germany, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Brazil---not just from England); New York was
founded by the Dutch (not the English) and was originally called New
Netherlands; England took New York from the Dutch in a war that they didn’t
even have to fire a single shot to win; the Native Americans sold New Amsterdam
to the Dutch for about $24, the land which later became known as New York City;
Philadelphia became the largest city in America before the Revolutionary War;
Peter Stuyvesant was the second governor of New Amsterdam: William Penn founded
Pennsylvania as a colony for the Quakers
Be able to write on the following topics:
-the purpose of
the Mayflower Compact (textbook pages 194-195)
-how your life is
different that the life of a Puritan child (textbook pages 204-208)
-*why were the
Middle colonies successful and where are the people that live there
from (textbook
pages 212-222)
Be sure to know the locations of the New England and Middle colonies on
a map!
