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_c_. On what matters did Roger Williams disagree with the rulers of Ma.s.sachusetts?
_d_. How are Williams's ideas as to religious freedom regarded now?
_e_. Why was Mrs. Hutchinson expelled from Ma.s.sachusetts?
---- 51-54.--_a_. How did the Pequod War affect the colonists on the Connecticut?
_b_. What is a const.i.tution? Why did the Connecticut people feel the need of one? Why is the Connecticut const.i.tution famous?
_c_. Why did the New Haven settlers found a separate colony?
---- 55, 56.--_a_. What two parties were fighting in England?
_b_. Give all the reasons for the formation of the New England Confederation. What were the effects of this union?
_c_. Compare the industries of New England with those of Virginia.
CHAPTER 7
---- 57-59.--_a_. Why did the Dutch East India Company wish a northern route to India?
_b_. Describe Hudson's and Champlain's expeditions, and compare their treatment of the Iroquois.
_c_. What attracted the Dutch to the region discovered by Hudson?
---- 60-62.--_a_. What was the object of the Dutch West India Company?
What privileges did the patroons have?
_b_. Describe the career of Kieft. What were the results of his treatment of the Indians?
_c_. What kind of a governor was Stuyvesant? Why was he unpopular?
-- 63.--_a_. In what European war were the Swedes and the Dutch engaged?
_b_. On what land did the Swedes settle?
_c_. Describe how New Sweden was joined to New Netherland.
GENERAL QUESTIONS
_a_. Mark on a map in colors the lands settled by the different European nations.
_b_. Note the position of the Dutch with reference to the English, and explain the importance of such position.
_c_. Give one fact about each of the colonies, and state why you think it important.
_d_. Give one fact which especially interests you in connection with each colony, and explain your interest.
_e_. In which colony would you have liked to live, and why?
TOPICS FOR SPECIAL WORK
_a_. Champlain's place in American history (Parkman's _Pioneers_).
_b_. The First American Legislature and its work (Hart's _Contemporaries_, I., No. 65).
_c_. Why did the Pilgrims come to America? (Bradford's _Plymouth_).
_d_. Arrange a table of the several settlements similar to that described on page 18.
_e_. Write a composition on life in early colonial days (Eggleston's _United States_, 91-113).
SUGGESTIONS TO THE TEACHER
In treating this chapter aim to make clear the reasons for and conditions of the settlement of each colony. Vividness can best be obtained by a study of the writings of the time, especially of Bradford's _History of Plymouth_. Use pictures in every possible way and molding board as well.
Emphasize the lack of true liberty of thought, and lead the children to understand that persecution was a characteristic of the time and not a failing of any particular colony or set of colonists.
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A CENTURY OF COLONIAL HISTORY, 1660-1760
Books for Study and Reading
References.--Fiske's _United States for Schools_ 133-180; McMaster's _School History_, 93-108 (life in 1763); _Source-Book_, ch.
vii; Fisher's _Colonial Era_; Earle's _Child Life_.
Home Readings.--Parkman's _Montcalm and Wolfe_; Franklin's _Autobiography_; Brooks's _In Leisler's Times_; Coffin's _Old Times in the Colonies_; Cooper's _Last of the Mohicans_; Scudder's _Men and Manners One Hundred Years Ago_.
CHAPTER 8
THE COLONIES UNDER CHARLES II
[Sidenote: The Puritan in England. Higginson and Channing, _English History for Americans_, 182-195.]
[Sidenote: The Colonies, 1649-60.]
65. The Puritans and the Colonists, 1649-60.--In 1649 Charles I was executed, and for eleven years the Puritans were supreme in England.
