APUSH- Sections 1-2- Chapters 1-5

Question 1

Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Bay Company

Answer 1

1629-

• Massachusetts Bay Company was the joint-stock company that a group of Puritans charted to escape King James I.
• It was led by John Winthrop, who taught that the new colony should be a model of Christian society (“ a city upon a hill”)
• These Puritans carefully organized their venture and, upon arrival, did not undergo the “starving time” that had plagued other first-year colonies.
• The government of Massachusetts developed to include a governor and a representative assembly.

Question 2

John Peter Zenger

Answer 2

1697-1746

• John Peter Zenger was a german American newspaper publisher and printer.
• His acquittal of libel charges in NYC (1735) established a legal precedent for freedom of the press
• The supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren (1950s to 1960s) would later reinvigorate free press rights
• The case of the New York Times v. Sullivan (1960s) strengthened the protection of the press against libel cases brought by public figures

Question 3

St. Augustine, Florida

Answer 3

1598

• French Protestants (Huguenots) went to the New World to practice their religion freely, and they formed a colony near modern-day St. Augustine, Florida.
• Spain, which oversaw Florida, reacted violently to the Huguenots because they were trespassers and because the catholic Church viewed them as heretics (believed something contrary to their views)
• Spain sent a force to the settlement and massacred the inhabitants
• The settlement at St. Augustine, Florida is considered to be the first permanent European settlement in what would become the USA

Question 4

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 4

1638

• Anne hutchinson claimed to have had special revelations from God that superseded the Bible, contrary to Puritan doctrine
• The leadership of New England accused her of antinomian(the belief that salvation is attained through fait hand divine grave and not through strict adherence to riles or moral laws) teachings.
• Hutchinson was tried and banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony.
• With her followers, she founded Portsmouth in the Aquidneck reason (1638) in what is now known as Rhode Island

Question 5

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 5

Virginia’s royal governor, William berkeley, received strict instructions to run the colony for Britain’s benefit
- Nathaniel bacon was a leader of colonia frontiersmen in Virginia, a group that included former indentured servants.