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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. Thomas Dudley had been whose steward in England?
2. 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”?
3. What pastor in Watertown and Winthrop's neighbor back in England caused problems by teaching that the Roman Catholic Church was a legitimate body of Christians?
4. James Luxford worked for John Winthrop in what position?
5. The author asserts in the beginning of Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed” that “As long as Winthrop held the reins of government he held them” how?
Short Essay Questions
1. When was the “Body of Liberties” adopted in Massachusetts? What did this document contain?
2. What forced John Winthrop to reveal the stipulations of the charter to the colonists, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
3. What type of government did the Massachusetts Bay Company charter entitle the officers to establish for the colony, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
4. Where did Roger Williams go when he left Plymouth? Where did he begin a church and start to gain power, according to the author in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?
5. What problems arose in the Massachusetts colony as a result of the outbreak of the English Civil War?
6. When did Roger Williams come to New England? How was his arrival in the colony described in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?
7. 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”?
8. How does the author describe Anne Hutchinson’s Antinomian beliefs in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
9. What did the Massachusetts Bay Company charter grant in terms of the establishment of a government for the colony, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
10. What ordinance does the author describe Nathaniel Ward as having introduced in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the figure of John Endecott. What was Endecott’s role in the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? When did John Endecott depart for Massachusetts? Who joined Endecott? What was Endecott’s purpose in arriving prior to the wave of settlers?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the freedoms granted by the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter regarding the establishment of government in the settlement. What did the charter stipulate in terms of meetings of the governing body? How was “government” defined in terms of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches we have today?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the biography, work, and beliefs of Thomas Dudley. What was Dudley’s role in the governing body of the Massachusetts Colony? What led to the animosity between Dudley and Winthrop? How did this rivalry affect government and government policy in the colony?
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