History Test Study Guide

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!