Settling The Northern Colonies Big Picture Themes

Chapter #3: Settling the Northern Colonies - Big Picture Themes 1. Plymouth, MA was founded with the initial goal of allowing Pilgrims, and later Puritans, to worship independent of the Church of England. Their society, ironically, was very intolerant itself and any dissenters were pushed out of the colony. 2. Other New England colonies sprouted up, due to (a) religious dissent from Plymouth and Massachusetts as with Rhode Island, (b) the constant search for more farmland as in Connecticut, and (c) just due to natural growth as in Maine. 3. The Middle Colonies emerged as the literal crossroads of the north and south. They held the stereotypical qualities of both regions: agricultural and industrial. And they were unique in that (a) New York was born of Dutch heritage rather than English, and (b) Pennsylvania thrived more than any other colony due to its freedoms and tolerance. IDENTIFICATIONS: Chapter #3: Settling the Northern Colonies (pages 43 – 65) Anne Hutchinson- Puritan spiritual leader who following a religious disagreement was banished for the Mass. Bay Colony and later died in the Dutch colony of New Netherland Roger Williams- Puritan leader who was exiled from Massachusetts and eventually went on to merge multiple colonies to create the colony of Rhode Island. William Bradford- Governor of the Plymouth colony following the exodus of the Pilgrims to what would become Massachusetts. William Penn- The colony of Pennsylvania named after him (Established as a quakerShow MoreRelatedThe Philippine Architecture: Spanish Colonial Period18287 Words   |  74 Pageseastward from Malacca to search for the Spice Islands (Maluku) led by Francisco Serrà £o in 1512. His voyage was the first known European sailing east past Malacca through Indonesia and the Indies. Serrao is shipwrecked but struggles on to Hitu (northern Ambon) and wins the favour of the local rulers. Francisco Serrà £os letters to Ferdinand Magellan, carried to Portugal via Portuguese Malacca and describing the Spice Islands, helped Magellan persuade the King of Spain to finance his circumnavigationRead MoreMandinka Empire21578 Words   |  87 Pagesthat of â€Å"massa,† the alleged mispronunciation by Southern slaves of â€Å"master.†1 Massa is in fact the correct Bainouk and Cassanga ethnic group pronunciation of mansa, the famous word used so widely among the adjacent and dominant Mande p eoples in northern and coastal west Africa to denote king or boss. In this new framework, the changes wrought by Mandinka, the Mande more broadly, and African culture generally on the South, are every bit as significant as the linguistic infusions of the Norman ConquestRead MoreManagement Course: Mba−10 General Management215330 Words   |  862 Pagesmass-production techniques. The next change in management thinking about car assembly occurred in Japan when Ohno Taiichi, a Toyota production engineer, pioneered the development of lean manufacturing in the 1960s after touring the U.S. plants of the Big Three car companies. The management philosophy behind lean manufacturing is to continuously ï ¬ nd methods to improve the efï ¬ ciency of the production process in order to reduce costs, increase quality, and reduce car assembly time. Lean production is basedRead MoreProject Managment Case Studies214937 Words   |  860 Pagespeople off in the Lampco Division. Yet, our compu ter engineers still feel that a reduction in DoD spending may cause massive layoffs here. Personally, I m not worried. We ve been through lean and fat times without having to terminate people. The big problem with the Lampco Division is that because of the technology developed in some of our other divisions, Lampco must subcontract out a good portion of the work (to our other divisions). Not that Lampco can t do it themselves, but we do have outstanding