New England Colonies

• Objective: I can understand the role that religion played in the creation of new settlements in the Western Hemisphere.

• Process: New England foldables/notes

• On Your Own: Reading/response: The First Charter of Virginia (3-4 sentences)

French Door Fold

• 4 flaps• Labeled:– New England Colonies– Motivation to colonize– Economy– Geography/Conflicts

New EnglandMiddle and Southern Colonies

The South

The Middle Colonies

New England

New England

• Massachusetts (and what we know as Maine)

• Rhode Island • Connecticut • New Hampshire

Let’s Refresh!What factors did Colonists have to contend with?

#1: Trip across Atlantic was ~ 2000 miles long!#2: Starting life over in a new unsettled area very difficult#3: Native Americans were hostile at times#4: Family and any support structure left behind in Europe#5: Harsh reality of survival in the New World => Many colonies fail/struggle initially

-- Sir Walter Raleigh’s Colony of Roanoke, Jamestown (John Smith), Puritans#6: Lack of Government or Bodies of law in the New World

-- No real ‘laws’, courts, police, etc.

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NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

Try to fill in as much as you can, then we’ll review!

Massachusetts: 2 Part-er!

• Mass. Bay: (Puritans)– Settled by: John Winthrop– Year: 1630

• Plymouth: (Pilgrims)– Settled by: William

Bradford– Year: 1620

• Reasons: Religious freedom for Puritans

• “City Upon a Hill”: educate and change the world

• Reasons: Provide religious freedom for Pilgrims, economic opportunity.

*Charter= Official permission by the government to found a new colony in the New World.

Remember Plymouth Colony?

• The first successful colony in New England • Founded by Puritans – Puritans/Separatists were groups of people who did not

agree with the Anglican Church in England. • In 1620 the Pilgrims left England and settled in

Plymouth. – Created Mayflower compact to agree to be governed by laws.

– William Bradford- Was elected Governor 1621-1656 – The famous Thanksgiving of 1621

Pilgrims vs. PuritansMany of the Pilgrims were

Separatists. – They wanted to separate

from the Anglican Church. (Church of England)

– By coming to the New World, they were escaping religious persecution and beginning a new settlement with their beliefs.

Puritans wanted to change the Anglican church from within.

They wanted to purify the Church of England from Catholic traditions.

They wanted a church that allowed members to experience God directly through prayer, faith, and study of the bible.

Came b/c of persecution. End up persecuting other religions.

Connecticut

• Settled by: Thomas Hooker

• Year: 1636

• Reasons: Puritans breaking away from Massachusetts’ strict religious policy and political freedom– Hooker writes

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, first constitution in America!

New Hampshire

• Settled by: John Mason/settlers from Massachusetts

• Year: 1630

• Reasons: economic opportunities.

Rhode Island

• Settled by: Roger Williams

• Year: 1630

• Reasons: Religious freedom, religious tolerance! Political freedoms.

Challenges to Puritan Authority

Anne Hutchinson—Claimed that God revealed to her that the people could read the Bible on their own and make their own interpretations. Was tried and banished as a heretic, traveling first to Rhode Island and then to New York where she and her family were later killed by natives.

Roger Williams—Demanded clean break with the corrupt Church of England—Banished in 1636, built a Baptist Church and established complete freedom of religion in Rhode Island (even for Jews and Catholics) and complete manhood suffrage. He also believed that land should be purchased from the American Indians as it was not his to simply take.

Economic Development & Geography of New England

• NE had the most diverse economy in all regions – primarily focused on trade/industry:1. Heavy reliance on the Atlantic Ocean: Shipbuilding, fishing, forestry2. Good natural harbors

*really rocky soil made growing crops difficult.3. More urbanized w/ more professional workers (i.e. doctors, clergy, lawyers), think cities!4. Little slavery due to economy and geography

• 5. Very religious-focused society w/ Bible/church as center of the community.

Who are they going to encounter that will cause conflicts?