Thursday

 Today we are going to get into chapter 3 of your textbook.

1) What is the difference between the Puritans and the Separatists?
2) What did King James dislike the two groups?
3) What is the importance of the Mayflower Compact?
4) What advantages did the Massachusetts Bay Colony have on its arrival in the New World?
5) What type of government was established in Massachusetts Bay?
6) Why was Anne Hutchinson removed from Massachusetts?  Roger Williams?
7) Why was Rhode Island established?  Why was it unique?
8) What were the fundamental orders of Connecticut?
9) How were relations between New England settlers and the Native Americans?
10) What was the significance of King Phillip's War?
11) What was the New England Confederation?
12) Why did the Dutch settle in New Amsterdam?
13) How did the English come to rule New York?
14) Why did Penn establish Pennsylvania?
15) What were the similarities among the Middle Colonies?  Differences?
 

Barbados Slave Code (this is adopted by South Carolina)

[N}egroes [are] an heathenish brutish and an unsertaine dangerous kinde of people…

 

[B]eing brutish slaves [they] deserve not for the basenesse of their condition to be tryed by the legall tryall of twelve Men of their appeares or neighborhood which truely neither can be rightly done as the Subjects of England are nor in execution to bee delayed towards them in case of such horrid crimes comitted[.] It is there fore enacted … [that] two Justices shall by their Warrant call to them three able good and legall freeholders shall heare & examine all evidences proofe and testimony of the fact.

 

Slave codes gave slaveholders the legal right to torture and murder Black subjects of colonial society without negative consequence:

 

If any Negro or slave whatsoever shall offer any violence to any Christian by striking or the like, such Negro or slave shall for his and her first offence be severely whipped by the Constable. For his second offence of that nature he shall be severely whipped his nose slit, and be burned in some part of his face with a hot iron. And being brutish slaves, [they] deserve not, for the baseness of their condition, to be tried by the legal trial of twelve men of their peers, as the subjects of England are. And it is further enacted and ordained that if any Negro or other slave under punishment by his master unfortunately shall suffer in life or member, which seldom happens, no person whatsoever shall be liable to any fine therefore.”*

 

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