• THE PILGRIMS:– In 1620 the Pilgrims,

aboard the Mayflower, reached Cape Cod Bay, near what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts.

– The Pilgrims left England because of Religious conflict

• The Pilgrim Faith:– Pilgrims were separatists who

broke with the Anglican Church in England

– Puritans: Were the most radical of the Pilgrims

• They were Protestants: They wanted to “PURIFY” the Anglican Church of all Catholic Rituals and Traditions – so, they went to the Netherlands before America

• William Bradford: he found a place for the Puritans in America: The Hudson River Valley

• Plymouth Colony:– Mayflower Compact:

Pilgrim leaders had drawn up an agreement for the men to sign. It established a self-governing Colony based on the Majority Rule of male church members

• Disease and Hunger took a toll on the Pilgrims– “In 3 months past dies half of

our company…The living are scarce able to bury the dead”

– Jamestown – the Pilgrims in Jamestown owed their survival to the Native Americans (Wampanoag)

• Squanto (Patuxet Indian) he spoke English and he taught the Pilgrims how to grow crops - THANKSGIVING

• The Great Migration:– Most Puritans (Protestants)

wished to purify the Anglican Church of all Catholic Rituals

– Puritans left England Because:1. Economic Difficulty: no jobs2. People were kicked-off their

land3. There was more land in

America and it was cheaper than land in England

4. Crop failure in England5. Religious persecution

• Great Migration (continued):

– Beginning in 1630, more than 40,000 people left England for the Americas

• Massachusetts Bay Colony:– Puritans, in 1629,

established a Charter for Massachusetts Bay Company which allowed them to establish a colony

– John Winthrop – the leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Charter for Massachusetts Bay Colony:– They were allowed to

govern the Colony as they wanted but could not violate English Law\

– Their society was guided by English Law and the Bible

• Charter for Massachusetts Bay Colony:– All freemen could vote

• Freemen elected representatives to the general court – the governing body that made laws

• Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony:– The New England Way:

• Cooperation between Church and State that was the basis of the Puritan Commonwealth

• Must Live a Moral life or suffer God’s anger

• Founded Harvard College, the First North American College

• Religious Dissent:

– Thomas Hooker: Left Mass. Bay Colony because of religious differences with Puritan leaders and he needed more land so he moved westward

• Thomas Hooker developed the Fundamental Order of Connecticut

– The FOC was the first written constitution in the Colonies

• Religious Dissent:– Roger Williams: he was

forced to leave Massachusetts Bay Colony because he questioned Puritan Ways – He believed in Separation of Church and State• He founded Providence

Rhode Island where they practiced religious freedom

• CHALLENGING AUTHORIY:– Anne Hutchinson: she

expressed ideas that opposed the Puritan’s Teachings• She moved to Rhode

Island so she could practice the religion she wanted

• THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALSTRIALS:– Massachusetts citizens

were accused of witchcraft and many were hung