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 & 1 st 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? ◦ ◦ 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