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AP US History

Chapter

Study
Guide

Name______________________________________

Period_________

Settling the Northern Colonies


1619-1700

Terms and Names: Define each term/person thoroughly, using your own words
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.

The elect
Predestination
Conversion
Visible saints
Puritans
Separatists
Pilgrims
Mayflower Compact
William Bradford
John Winthrop

K.
L.
M.
N.
O.
P.
Q.
R.
S.
T.

Congregational Church
Covenant p. 47
John Cotton
Fundamental Orders
Pequots
Praying towns
King Philips War
English Navigation Laws
Glorious Revolution
Salutary neglect

Short Answer: Carefully answer each question thoroughly, using information from the text. It is best if

you can put it in your own words. It is advisable to makes your notes more manageable and organized by
using bullet points, charts, diagrams, numbered lists and graphs. They need to make sense to you.
Customize them. Include questions in the margins to ask in class.
1. Discuss the significance of the Mayflower Compact.
2. Compare and contrast the founding (reasons for and details of) of Plymouth Colony and
Massachusetts Bay Colony. How did religious differences in the settlers (Separatist Pilgrims vs.
Puritans) affect each of the two colonies?
3.

Explain the meaning and significance of Winthrops declaration, We shall be as a city upon a
hill.

4. In what ways was Massachusetts Bay Colony democratic? (Judge it by contemporary standards, not
those of the present day) To what extent did a separation of church and state exist?
5. What types of things (actions, ideas, people) did the leaders of Massachusetts Bay Colony (MBC)
not tolerate?
6. Why was Rhode Island nicknamed Rogues Island? Why did the leaders of MBC call it a sewer?
7. Why did the New England Confederation form? What was its significance? What was Charles IIs
response to it after the Restoration in 1660?
8. What was the Dominion of New England and what was the colonial response to it?
9. For what purpose was New Netherland (New York) founded? What about New Amsterdam (New
York City)? When and how did it come to be under English control?
10. How did Pennsylvania reflect Quaker beliefs and influence? (Religiously, Diplomatically with Indians,
Politically and Socially)?

11. Describe the features of the Middle Colonies and explain how they were different from New England
and the South.

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