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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many Englishmen were said to have come to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the summer of 1638?
2. The amount of debts that John Winthrop ended up with as a result of James Luxford’s actions was how much, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?
3. How old was Nathaniel Ward when he came to Ipswich in 1634?
4. What “testy pastor of Ipswich, held himself unworthy to wipe John Cotton’s slippers,” according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
5. The king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company ordained that the freemen of the company were to meet how many times per year in a “Great and General Court”?
Short Essay Questions
1. What led up to the banishment of Reverend Wheelwright, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
2. What were the faults of John Endecott and Thomas Dudley as legislators, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
3. What were John Winthrop’s feelings about Roger Williams, according to the author in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?
4. What forced John Winthrop to reveal the stipulations of the charter to the colonists, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
5. What ordinance does the author describe Nathaniel Ward as having introduced in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?
6. What did the representatives learn when they studied the charter in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
7. When did Anne and William Hutchinson arrive in New England? How does the author describe them in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
8. How did the Puritans perceive the relationship between church and state, according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?
9. How does the author describe the changes in the colony during the years when John Winthrop was overthrown as governor in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?
10. What problems arose in the Massachusetts colony as a result of the outbreak of the English Civil War?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and analyze the system of elections established by John Winthrop and the other leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. What influenced these leaders to adopt a system of voting for leadership? How did these systems find their way into what would eventually become the United States system of government? What was innovative about the electoral system adopted?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the hardships of the colonists at Plymouth, Jamestown, and Cape Ann. How many of the original settlers in these colonies died? How did they die? What threats faced the colonists? How many of these original colonists returned to England?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the origins and history of Presbyterianism and Congregationalism. How did each of these sects branch off from the Anglican Church? When did each appear? How did Presbyterian societies and settlements differ from those that were principally Congregational?
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