The Northern Colonies: Reading 1.2

We move North now, out of the so-called Plantation Colonies and into New England. This is a longer reading, so please feel free to follow the reading guide, rather than try and read the whole thing. I have tried to provide questions that I feel are the most significant from the reading (remember to STOP when you reach the second subject heading listed):

1. Where does the Protestant Reformation fit into the story of America? What does it have to do with settlement, if anything? (Think Cause and Effect.)
2. Define: Puritans, Separatists
3. What is the Mayflower Compact, and why is it significant?
4. Put this quote into context: "the beaver and the Bible were the early mainstays: the one for the sustenance of the body, the other for the sustenance of the soul" (Kennedy, 43).
5. How was The Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?
6. What did John Winthrop think of democracy? Why does this matter? Does it tell us anything about the mindset of early leaders in Colonial American society?
7. Was the New England settlers' experience with Native Americans similar to that of the Virginians, or different? How so?
8. Describe two distinct features of the Middle Colonies.