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New England Colonies

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Massachusetts (Plymouth, Mass. Bay), Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut

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Who were the Puritans?

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English Protestants who were unhappy with the England Church
- hard workers
- calling from God
“visible saints”

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Who did the Puritans follow?

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John Calvin

  • believed in predestination
  • believed that the church should be purified
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Who were the Separatists?

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  • Hardcore Puritans, Left church rather than push for reforms
  • leaves england and settles in holland then heads for Plymouth
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Pilgrims 
When? 
Where? 
Leaders? 
Details?
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When? 1620
Where? Plymouth, MA
Leaders? William Bradford, Miles Standish
Details? Under the authority of the VA Company, draws up the Mayflower Compact
- 1st year is death and sickness
by 1691 they merge with mass. bay

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Massachusetts Bay 
Who? 
When? 
Where? 
Leaders? 
Details
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Who? Puritans
When? 1630
Where? Massachusetts Bay
Leaders? John Winthrop (City on a Hill- A model of Christian Charity)
Details? Wanted to be a utopic and be an example for old England

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What was New England social life like?

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  • Settled as families
  • Settled in towns, orderly expansion
  • Longer life expectancy
  • Strong emphases on education (Old Deluder Satan Law) (Form Harvard)
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What as the Geography of New England?

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  • Cold Winters
  • Rocky/sandy soil
  • Tied to the sea
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What was the economy of New England like?

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  • More diverse than southern colonies
  • subsistence farming
  • fishing, lumber
  • hard working
  • less class divisions
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What kind of colony was Mass. Bay

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Charter

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Quasi-theocracy

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Religion and State

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Examples of the New England way

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  • Church members could vote and hold office
  • townmeetings in church
  • tax $ for church
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What was the General Court?

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Gov. body that provides legislative and judicial functions

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Dissenters of the Puritans?

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Roger Williams- Supported separation of church and state, booted to Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson- disagreed with leaders, gender issue, midwife leading wives astray

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Halfway Covenant

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Need conversion to become a full church member, problems with babies dying before baptism…. SO, people had to make a promise which allowed babies to be baptized

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Describe the Relationship between the Indians and the Puritans in the beginning

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In the beginning relations were good

- John Elliot creates praying towns

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What negatively happened between the Indians and the Puritans?

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  • Pequot War, Bay colonists wanted to claim Conn., belonged to Pequot Indians
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King Philips War

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Try to unite Indians to end White expansion, however Metacom (leader and grandson of Massasoit), dies and Indians lose

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New England Confederation

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Formed in 1640, created by England to defend against Indians and Dutch

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Revolt against Edmund Andros

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1685, Gov. of England revoked the charter of Mass. Bay and creates Navication Acts, tightening control over Northern Colonies

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Rhode Island

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Founded by Roger Williams

  • More democratic
  • Separation of Church and State
  • More tolerant of religions
  • was viewed as inferior
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Connecticut “constitution state”

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Was originally Hartford- and New Haven, was merged by a royal charter

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

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Described the structure and powers of a government- features of the constitution

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New Hampshire

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Started as a fishing and trading settlements, later became a royal colony

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Middle Colonies

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New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

- founded later, difficult to generalize about

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Geography of the Middle Colonies

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  • Good soil, “bread colonies”
  • available land - rapid growth
  • good rivers
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New York msc. knowledge

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  • founded by the Dutch
  • was a business venture
  • Cosmopolitan
  • 1660 was taken by English to link the colonies
  • good harbor
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Pennsylvania

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  • largest and most important of the middle
  • founded by William Penn
  • goals— 1, financial. 2, Be a utopia for quaker principles
  • Pennsylvania Dutch (germans)
  • Economy- Farming
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Who are the Quakers?

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“Society of Friends”

  • Followed their own conscious
  • Pacifists
  • Tolerant of religion, nationalities, anti slavery
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New Jersey

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Puritans and quakers

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Delaware

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  • Dutch and Swedes (log cabins, wagons)

- close ties to PA

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Middle Colony Summary

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Mix of ethnic groups
Religious Diversity
“Politics” emerged here
“Most American”?

APUSH- American Pageant (6 decks)

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