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Puritan New England & The Middle Colonies

Puritan New England & The Middle Colonies. Chapters 2.3 & 2.4 Notes. Puritans Create a “New England”. Puritanism had its origins in the English Reformation Puritans emigrated in order to create a model society Separatists founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620

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Puritan New England & The Middle Colonies

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  1. Puritan New England & The Middle Colonies Chapters 2.3 & 2.4 Notes

  2. Puritans Create a “New England” • Puritanism had its origins in the English Reformation • Puritans emigrated in order to create a model society • Separatists founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620 • 1629, John Winthrop obtained a royal charter for a joint-stock company – The Massachusetts Bay Company

  3. Massachusetts Bay Colony • 1630, The Arbela lands in the New World • Winthrop and the Puritans didn’t believe in Social Equality or Political Democracy • Still more democratic than England • Very close ties between Church & State • Puritans came over in families

  4. Dissent in the Puritan Community • Roger Williams caused a major stir in the Massachusetts Bay Colony • Williams was ordered to be arrested by the General Court • Anne Hutchinson posed an even greater threat than Williams • Hutchinson was banished in 1638

  5. North Americans Resist Colonial Expansion • Conflicts arose over land use between natives and settlers • 1637, Connecticut – Pequot War • Colonists brutally massacred the Pequot on the Mystic River to end the war • King Philip’s War erupted under Metacom in the spring of 1675 • Finally food shortages, disease, and heavy casualties forced the Native Americans to surrender

  6. The Dutch Found New Netherland • 1621, Dutch Government granted Dutch West India Company permission to colonize New Netherland • 1655, Dutch take over New Sweden • The colony opened its doors to a variety of people • Relatively friendly with Native Americans • 1664, England takes control of the colony

  7. The Quakers Settle Pennsylvania • 1660s, Quakers faced massive persecution in England • William Penn saw his colony as a “holy experiment” • For more than 50 years the Pennsylvania colony had no major conflicts with Native Americans • Vigorously recruited immigrants from around Western Europe • Principles of equality, cooperation, and religious tolerance eventually become a blueprint for the new American nation

  8. WILLIAM PENN LIVES!!!!!!

  9. Thirteen Colonies 1632, Lord Baltimore founds Maryland 1663, King Charles II grants territories of North and South Carolina 1732, James Ogelthorpe starts Georgia as a proposed debtor’s colony By 1752, 13 British Colonies dominated the New World

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