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HIST220 Midterm
American History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Richard Frethorne | Indentured servitude in VA "I beg of you to help me" |
| Edward Waterhouse | Opencharicanough's Uprising in VA 1622 Hostility will help the Colonists Conquering much easier than civilizing the savages |
| Roger Williams | "Observations of New England Indians" Williams very willing to learn language and understand culture Natives affectionate towards their children, too indulgent Joyful trading Religious beliefs in many Gods |
| John Winthrop | "The Arbella Sermon"; A model of Christian Charity 1630 Puritan leader, 1st Govnernor of Mass., Bay Colony God created inequality, Shipwreck, Love perfect bond of perfection |
| Cotton Mather | Testimony against accused witch Bridget Bishop, 1692 |
| William Penn | 71 Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682 |
| Elisabeth Ashbridge | Indentured servant in NY Fell upon hard times, emigrate to colonies, Quaker, married -- chastisement for disobedience |
| Benjamin Franklin | "Poor Richards Advice" "God helps them who help themselves" "Early to bed and early to rise" |
| Advertisements for Runaway Slaves | South Carolina Gazette & VA Gazette, 1737-1745 |
| Charles Woodsmason | "An Anglican criticizes new light baptists and presbyterians in the SC backcountry", Himself a pious anglican minister "Irreverant worship" "Uneducated congregations" "Indecent and immodest practices" "More crime and drunkenness" |
| Mary Jamison | Captured by Seneca Indians (7 yr war) "And I was ever considered and treated by them as a real sister, the same as though I had been born of their mother" |
| Joseph Warrenn | Bosten Massacre, March 1772 "Laws made 3000 miles away" "We are enslaved" "The voice of your fathers blood cries to you from the ground, my sons scorn to be slaves" |
| George Hewes | Boston Shoemaker recalls British arrogance and the Boston Tea Party |
| Daniel Leanord | Defends British "let us divest ourselves of prejudice, take a view of our present wretched situation, contrast it with our former happy one, carefully investigate the cause, and industriously seek some means to escape the evils we now feel..." |
| Edmond Burke | Speech to British Parliament; Himself British "let's not attack Colonies" "Character of the Americans: a love of freedom" |
| Letters between John & Abigail Adams | "Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of the husbands, Remember all men would be tyrants if they could" "Depend upon it, we know better than to repeal our masculine systems" |
| J. Hector St. John de Chevercoeur | "Distress of Frontier farmer during the Revolution, 1782" "Self-preservation, therefore [rule of conduct]" Muy molestado que no hay PAZ |
| Boston King | Black slave that runs away to the British Army "But, alas, all these enjoyments could not satisfy me without liberty" |
| Benjamin Rush | Proper education of American Children "On the mode of education proper in a republic" 1786 Laid in Education "it is possible to convert men into republican machines" Education of Women |
| Households | Elizabethan English Life: KEY TO SOCIETY Obsession with hierarchy and order Saw hierarchy in other areas of life (nature, God) Father at head of household, then under him the children, wife, and servants |
| Sumptuary Laws | 1510 "Keep you in your place" Protects place in society |
| Bread Riots | Time of bad harvest A conservative Riot Mobs remove "just price" for bread |
| Sturdy Beggars | Enclosures (turning common land to private land, rich getting richer, poor suffered greatly) Enclosures created new class -- Sturdy Beggars, they go to the cities to make a living! |
| Henry VIII | English Reformation Originally deeeeeeply Catholic (Aun el papa le llamo "defender of the faith") Needs a son (& a divorce to get a son...) 1530 breaks from Catholic Church and head of the Anglican Church (political & spiritual power!) |
| John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL, ALMOST AS INFLUENTIAL AS THE BIBLE) 1563 English anti-catholicism Stories of martyrs of Christian History, but the bulk of story is BLOODY MARY'S REIGN Catholic Bishops "SONS OF PERDITION" "Bloody enemies.." |
| Privateering | Those who first settled the Americas Roanoke 1584 Set up under Elizabeth Had permission from England to pirate Spain Patriotic Many knighted (b/c fighting against spain...) 1588 Spain declares war on England Privateers reason |
| Lord Baltimore | 1632 Maryland Original Idea: Haven Catholics BUT Catholics in England well-, dont want to leave. Finally found 60 families, offer religious freedom, protestants 250 servants, 1st Col 4 Religious freedom POINT: 17th Cent rel freedom? NOT TRUE |
| Bacon's Rebellion 1676 | ex-servants getting freedom, angry w/ guns! Bacon from England to settlements, found land going west, they ask gvnt for help, they refuse MARCH ON JAMESTOWN and BURN IT, fight indians |
| Elizabethan Settlement | Elizabeth Established Permanent Anglican Church Act of Uniformity (Book of Common prayer, Church attendance mandatory, clergy required to preach from Bible, against Catholics, each parish has Public Bible) -- HIGH vs LOW church! |
| Hampton Court Conference 1604 | KJV born Goal: everyone "quiet and obedient" To please low-church lovers (puritans demanding reforms!) Discussion between King James I and the Church of England |
| Dedham, Mass. | Settled from England, wealthy in England, wealthy in colonies, belief in the order of society, KEEP IN THE MORAL ORDER -- created problem for children (splitting up land)-- move to west..can we make a new city out here? NO! Idea undermines community. |
| Dedham, Mass. Ctd | Winthrop had a vision, and you are ruining it! Ministers respond with "Jeremiad" --> you are worthless... |
| Separatists | Great Migration in 1640, two big groups coming to new world: Separatists "pilgrims", and non-separatists.. Seps came to escape religious persecution, economically these people were well off in England, economically they lost a lot coming to the newworld |
| Charles I | Conflict between Parliament & Stuarts --> 1625-1640 He wants to involve catholicism (marriage, children , foreign policy), personal rule (chao parliament), then runs out of money, asks for parliament to come back, Parliament recalled and dismissed. Ch de |
| Inner Light | Quakers "lowest of the low churches". Refused signs of social deference. "thee and thou" to all. . When Charles restored, low churches VERY PERSECUTED |
| Barbados | Sugar the top crop in barbados, but they they think "what about the colonies?", they comeo the carolina, sugar doesnt work, cotton, indigo, ginger, grapes, olives, tobacco, and then finally RICE! WE NEED SLAVES NOW! |
| George Keith | |
| Refinement | Plantation homes Designed to impress Courtesy books Fashionable what was happening in London Rank, establish who is who... |
| Ben Franklin | Limits to colonial hierarchy, BF apprentace to older brother, printer, work hard, rags to riches, possible to RISE |
| George Whitefield | Great Awakening, new lights and old lights, "cross-eyed preacher", Methodist, Charismatic preacher NEW LIGHT! Emotional, unleashed style! |
| James Ireland | VA 1760s, baptist preacher, preached w/o a licence, seen as a threat! |
| Social Contract Theory | |
| Proclamation Line | 1763, White/ black settlers can't go beyond certain line to not mix Indians w/ Blacks...British needed alliance w/ indians, colonists went crazy. WHY? British restricting LAND, FREEDOM, INDEPENDANCE |
| Declatory Act | 1766, parliament as the right to "tax and bind" in all cases whatsoever, repealed stamp tax |
| Standing Armies | British troops: republican fear of standing armies (professional armies)/ aka regular armies, needed professional army and represent liberty |
| Bunker Hill | 1st major battle of american rev....although in the long run we lost, it gave us lots of ANIMO! |
| Mary Silliman | the movie! |
| Freedom Suits | slaves getting freedom -- started hate between slave states and non slave states....early on! |
| Lord Dunmore's Proclamation | slaves come and have freedom with them! failure! |
| Nonimportation | |
| George Hewes | --read it-- |
| Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 | super democratic -- all men can vote, regardless of land-owning, councils elected for certain period of time, followed declaration of independance |
| Quebec Act | Leading colonial Grievance: make new englanders go crazy; high church anglicans & catholics -- religious pamphlets and sermons authorized secular 4:1, Religion and Loyaltism (Romans 13:1 Resisting King = damnation) |