CH 3 Reading Questions Part 2 pp. 52 – 62
1. Map, Portrait, and Broadside p54 –
- What example of Colonial Unity, the 2nd, is shown on the map?
2 Drawing/Map p. 55 –
- Title?
- What town is shown on the Map?
- What the ruling country of this colony at this time?
3 Portrait p.57 –
- Where, according to Stuyvesant, does he derive his power from, according to the caption?
4 (2) Paintings p58 & (1) Painting p59 –
- Which Religious group is shown in the Paintings on p58?
- How are Women empowered in this “Society” according to the caption?
-What is the title given to the painting on p59?
-The Founder of Pennsylvania attempted to live in harmony with which group?
5 Examining the Evidence p61 –
- How much did this chest sell for in 1999?
- Why is this known as the “Franklin Chest?”
6 Map p62 –
- Title?
- Which two (2) settlements are in color?
- What four (4) middle colonies become part of the Original 13 states?
READING QUESTIONS (BEGIN AT PAGE 52 “SEEDS”)
7 Which 4 colonies group together to form the New England Confederation?
- What was their primary purpose?
- What were two (2) secondary purposes?
- How did the group vote?
- How is this significant in American History?
8 “Benign Neglect” or “Salutary Neglect” – DEFINE*****HUGE****
9 Which King, after Restoration, decides to take an “active hand” in managing the Colonies?
10 Which colony opposed this Kings “active” role the most? (History will repeat itself )
SIR EDMUND ANDROS PROMOTES THE 1ST AMERICAN REVOLUTION
11 What is created in 1686, this time imposed on the colonies by the King’s Royal Authority?
12 What Colonies were included besides New England?
13 What were the two (main) purposes of this organization?
14 (p54) Name at least 4 of the 8 revolting actions of this organization?
15 Due to the Colonists long period of governing themselves (benign neglect ) WHAT was their
reaction to the above revolting actions?
16 What event in England caused this oppressive organization to collapse “like a house of cards?”
17 In 1691 what type of colony does Mass. become?
- How does this change who was eligible to vote in Mass?***
18 How does this event in England affect the enforcement of the NAVIGATION LAWS******?
THE MIDDLE COLONIES [NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, & DELAWARE]
Old Netherlanders at New Netherland
19 Name the English Explorer sent by the Dutch to search for a Northwest passage to Asia in 1609?
20 (p56) Name the Joint-Stock Company that settles and governs New Netherlands and builds New
Amsterdam in 1623-24 AND WHAT WAS THE MAIN PURPOSE?
21 How do the Dutch acquire Manhattan Island from the Natives?
22 What were the political characteristics of this colony?
23 How many different languages are heard spoken in New Amsterdam in the early 1630’s by a
visiting French Priest?
FRICTION WITH ENGLISH AND SWEDISH NEIGHBORS
24 Which country from 1635 to 1655 plants a new colony on the Delaware River to rival the
Dutch?
25 What was the lasting legacy of these colonists that pioneers through American History use
frequently?
DUTCH RESIDUES IN NEW YORK
26 After the RESTORATION of Charles II to the throne of England in in 1664, to WHOM does he give
all of New Netherland to as a gift AND WHAT IS ITS NEW NAME?
27 Name 3 legacies of the Dutch….place names, holidays, sports, etc… YOUR CHOICE?
PENN’S HOLY EXPERIMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA
28 What group of religious dissenters arises in England in during the mid-1600s—“The Society of
Friends”--- THEY ARE ALSO CALLED WHAT ONE WORD?
29 Name three (3) peculiar or unique aspects of the “friends” religious beliefs?
30 Who became a member of the “friends” at age 16?
31 How does manage to acquire land in the New World to create an “asylum” for these harshly
persecuted people?
32 Pennsylvania was by far the best ____________________________ of all of the colonies?
QUAKER PENNSYLVANIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS
33 Which city---translated from Greek—means “Brotherly Love” –and was the most carefully
planned of all colonial cities & will soon become the most populous?
34 How was Penn’s & the Quakers treatment of the Natives unique from most other English
settlements?
35 Quakers often used these people as babysitters?
36 Which feisty non-Quakers soon become the majority of Pennsylvania and cause problems with
the Indians and in the governing of the colony?
37 Does Pennsylvania have an “ESTABLISHED CHURCH?”
38 Quakers early on develop a strong dislike for ___________________ ________________________?**********
39 Pennsylvania hosted a “surprisingly modern atmosphere… and to an unusual degree afforded
____________________ _______________________, ____________________ _____________________, and ____________________
____________________.
40 By 1700 what are the three (3) largest colonies by population?
1
2
3
41 Which Middle colony is created in 1664 and is combined out of two (2) East and West in 1702
as a Royal colony?
42 Which middle colony consisted of 3 counties, is named for a harsh military governor of
Jamestown, and was actually part of Pennsylvania until the American Revolution?
THE MIDDLE WAY IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES
43 Penn., N.Y., N.J., (3) became known as the _________________ colonies?
44 What two (2) magnificent PORT CITIES were in the Middle Colonies?
45 The Middle Colonies were in many ways the most ______________________ part of America?
46 The Middle Colonies were more; ______________ mixed, had more religious _______________, and
more________________________ control and made a compassionate contribution to ____________________
____________________________ out of all proportion to their #’s?
47 Who is called the “Most Representative American Personality of His Era,” and moves to Philly
@ age 17 in 1720 from Boston?
***YOU should note in the last two (2) paragraphs of this chapter on page 62 ---THE MANY
CHANGES OVER TIME MENTIONED THAT OCCUR IN THE COLONIES…this could help with any essay
I would imagine 