Mr. Keal's AP US History class. Book: 13th edition of The American Pageant
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| 208941911 | William Bradford | Elected 30 times as governor of the Pilgrims in the annual elections; a self-taught scholar who read Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and Dutch; Pilgrim leader | |
| 208941912 | John Winthrop | the Bay Colony's first governor - served for 19 years | |
| 208941913 | John Cotton | A very devoted Puritan | |
| 208941914 | Michael Wigglesworth | Wrote the poem, "The Day of Doom," in 1662 | |
| 208941915 | Anne Hutchinson | An intelligent woman who challenged the Puritan orthodoxy; was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of her challenges to the Church | |
| 208984780 | Roger Williams | Popular Salem minister who also challenged the Church; an extreme Separatist; was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony | |
| 208984781 | Sir Edmund Andros | The leader of the Dominion of New England. established headquarters in Puritanical Boston; an able English military man; He stopped the town meetings; laid heavy restrictions on the courts, the press, and schools; and revoked all land titles | |
| 208984782 | New England Confederation | In 1643, 4 colonies banded together to form the New England Confederation. It was made to defend against foes or potential foes. The confederation consisted of only Puritan colonies - two Massachusetts colonies (the Bay Colony and small Plymouth) and two Connecticut colonies (New Haven and the scattered valley settlements). | |
| 208984783 | Henry Hudson | Hired by the Dutch East India Company to seek great riches. He sailed into the Delaware Bay and New York Bay in 1609 and then ascended the Hudson River. He filed a Dutch claim to a wooded and watered area. | |
| 208984784 | Peter Stuyvesant | Resenting the Swedish intrusion, the Dutch dispatched a small military expedition in 1655. It was led by the able of the directors-general, Peter Stuyvesant, who had lost a leg while soldiering in the West Indies and was dubbed "Father Wooden Leg" by the Indians. The main fort fell after a bloodless siege, whereupon Swedish rule came to an abrupt end. | |
| 208984785 | What happened to New Netherland in 1664? | In 1664, the Dutch were forced to surrender their territory (New Netherland) to the English when a strong English squadron appeared off the coast of New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam was named New York, after the Duke of York. | |
| 208984786 | William Penn | Quaker | |
| 208984787 | Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret | In 1664, New Netherland, a territory along the Hudson River, was taken by the English and granted to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. This grant that was given to Carteret and Berkeley divided the region into East and West New Jersey, respectively. | |
| 208984788 | New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania | The middle colonies were known as the "bread colonies" because of their heavy exports of grain. These colonies were more ethnically mixed than any of the other colonies. The people were given more religious tolerance than in any other colonies. | |
| 208984789 | Benjamin Franklin | Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1706. He moved to Philadelphia at the age of 17. |
