New England Colonies

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New England Colonies
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The French Connection New France

• Explorers in search of the _____________________
  _______________
• Jacques Cartier
• Explored the _______________________________River
• Samuel de Champlain
• Founded first French colony in 1608 in
  ____________________

Northwest Passage
St. Lawrence
Quebec
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The French Fur Trade

• Profitable trade with Europe
• Native Americans __________________ and skinned,
  then traded furs to French colonials
• New France established along St. Lawrence and the
  Great Lakes because _______________ was needed
  for transportation.

Trapped
water
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The Iroquois

• Key partners in the fur trade
• Market for European goods _____________, cloth,
  and jewelry
• Missionaries
• Converted many Iroquois to ___________________
• Disease ravaged populations, led to ___________
  between tribes to grow population

guns
Catholicism
captures
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Plymouth Colony

• Religious foundations
• 1534 the Anglican Church was created in England
• Puritans wanted to separate to practice a more
  pure form of Protestantism
• Puritans and Separatists were ____________________
  _ for their beliefs

persecuted
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• The Mayflower
• The ___________________, a group of Separatists
  voyaged to New England on the Mayflower
• Only 1/3 of the Mayflowers 100 passengers were
  Separatists, a form of government was needed to
  keep the group together
• The _____________________________________ was
  created by a group of men including William
  Bradford
• One of the first examples of ___________
  government

Puritans
Mayflower Compact
self
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• Challenges
• Harsh winter
• Led to deaths of _________ of the colonists
• Squanto taught to plant crops
• Prior lives?

Half
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Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Led by John Winthrop
• 1630 over 1000 settlers migrated to the
  Massachusetts Bay Colony in the
  ___________________________________
• 1643 saw more than 20,000 citizens and 20 towns
  (incl. Boston)

Great Migration
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• Why leave home to come to the New World?
• Religion
• Puritans who wanted to ________________ in their
  own way
• Not to be confused with __________________________
  __________
• Legally, everyone had to attend the Puritan
  Church
• Opportunity
• Carve out a living on new ______________________
• Religious Reform
• A clean break from the Church of England
• Fewer ______________________ rituals
• Study the Bible, listen to sermons, examine their
  lives

worship
Religious tolerance
farmland
Elaborate
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• Causing Change
• Cleared land to create _________________
• Converted 1000 Natives to Puritanism
• Total cultural change

farms
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• Puritan Ideals
• Community required to attend church
• Created a _________________ area in all towns
• Order
• Well ordered ______________ in well ordered
  ____________ in a well ordered _______________
• A City on a Hill?
• Lived long, generally happy lives

common
family
towns
colony
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• Dealing with Outcasts
• Salem Witch Trials (1692)
• 3 girls claimed to be taken control of by the
  ________________
• accused townspeople of witchcraft
• mass _________________
• 20 men and women killed

devil
Hysteria
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• Anne Hutchinson
• Felt it was wrong to obey the church if felt like
  disobeying ____
• Opened her home to other free thinkers
• Including _________________ who wanted to study
  the Bible
• Called to trial
• Defended self with Biblical __________
• Convicted and banished from the colony

God
women
passages
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Connecticut

• Settlers began in Massachusetts
• Founded by _______________ minister Thomas Hooker
• Created the Fundamental Orders as a plan of
  government

Puritan
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New Hampshire and Maine

• Separated from Massachusetts
• New Hampshire in 1679
• Founded by John Wheelwright, brother in law of
  _______________________________
• Maine in 1820

Anne Hutchinson
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Rhode Island

• Founded in 1635 by Roger Williams, a Separatist
  minister banished from ___________________________
  ___
• Thought land needed to be purchased from Native
  Americans
• Thought the government should not punish settlers
  over matters of _______________________

Massachusetts
religion
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War with Indians

• Settlers pushed Natives from their land
• The Pequot War
• Connecticut
• 1637 colony sent army to attack the Pequot
• burned a fort, killing more than ____________
• hunted, captured, or killed remaining Pequot

500
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• King Philips War
• Metacom, son of Massasoit, a Pokanoket leader who
  helped the Pilgrims of Plymouth
• As settlers grew and prospered, they moved onto
  more of the Pokanokets land
• 45,000 settlers with 90 towns
• Metacom united many Native groups to drive
  English out
• Destroyed 20 ________________
• Ruined fields, slaughtered cattle, kidnapped
  people
• English pushed back
• No language barrier
• Larger numbers
• Enlisted rival tribes to help
• August 1676 - Metacom killed

towns