New England Colonies

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New England Colonies
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Pilgrims
Landed in Plymouth Colony aboard Mayflower in 1620
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Pilgrims

• Leader William Bradford

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Mayflower Compact

• They signed Mayflower Compact which set up how
  the colony was going to be run

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Pilgrims

• Reasons they left
• Established Church-Church of England-head of
  Church was King
• If you did not follow you would be persecuted.

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Pilgrims
Pilgrims were Separatists-wanting to separate
from Church of England
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• Pilgrim Colony at Plymouth
• Pilgrims returned to England from the
  Netherlands.
• They won a charter to set up a colony in Va.

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• They landed in Plymouth aboard the Mayflower.
• They spelled it Plimouth

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Founded by Puritans in 1630
• Came because they wanted to purify/reform the
  Church of England.
• They wanted to create A city upon a Hill.

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My Vision of a City Upon a Hill

• What is your vision?

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John Winthrop was chosen as first Governor and
elected 12 times

• Do you think they liked him as Governor?

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• The Puritans were a religious group who had
  hoped to reform the Church of England
• The King disapproved of Puritans and their ideas,
  canceled Puritan business charters, and had some
  Puritans jailed.

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• They believed that England had fallen on evil
  and declining times.
• They wanted to build a new society based on
  biblical laws and teachings.

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• Only male church members could vote elected
  representatives to assembly called the General
  Court
• If you questioned how colony was being run, you
  could be banished

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Banish
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Connecticut

• Thomas Hooker

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• Can you guess why Connecticut is Mr. Rosenbergs
  favorite state?

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Connecticut

• Thomas Hooker led 100 settlers to Hartford in
  1636
• He believed governor had too much power
• He wanted strict limits on government

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Plan of Government
• Gave vote to all men who were property owners
  (even non church members)
• Limits the governments power
• Expands the idea of representative government

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Rhode Island

• Roger Williams

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RHODE ISLAND

• Founded in 1636
• Narragansett Indians sold land to Puritan
  Minister Roger Williams after he was banished
  from Massachusetts.

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Roger Williams

• believed that Puritan Church had too much power,
• church and state should be completely separate

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Rhode Island

• believed in religious tolerance
• All white men had right to vote

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Anne Hutchinson
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Anne Hutchinson

• Puritan who had discussion meetings after
  Ministers sermons, questioning churchs
  teachings
• She told the court that God spoke directly to
  her.

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Anne Hutchinson

• She was banished and ended up going to Rhode
  Island.

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New Hampshire

• Founded in 1680
• Settlers from MA spread out across New England
• Trading and fishing villages founded

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LIFE IN N.E. COLONIES

• Tightly knit towns and villages dealt with local
  matters as community
• Center of village was a common, an open field
  where cattle graze, and a meetinghouse

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LIFE IN N.E. COLONIES

• Town meetings were held in the meetinghouse as
  well as school. Settlers discussed and voted on
  many issues.

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Economy and Geography

• Rocky soilpoor farming
• American Indians taught colonists how to grow
  corn, pumpkins, squash, and beans

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• Settlers hunted wild turkey and deer
• Settlers cut down trees and used them for
  shipbuilding
• Settlers fished for cod, halibut, and whales

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RELATIONS WITH AMERICAN INDIANS

• Metacom, also known as King Phillip was Chief
  of Wampanoag tribe

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• As settlers expanded outward, relationship with
  American Indians worsened
• There were many fights against settlers known as
  King Phillips War

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• After a year of fighting Metacom was captured.
  The English sold his family and 1,000 Native
  Americans into slavery in West Indies
• I am resolved not to see the day when I have no
  country.