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New England

New England. Early New England. Virginia Company of Plymouth 1607 = Failed settlement in Maine 1608 = Separatists/Pilgrims flee to the Netherlands Puritans & Separatists wanted to settle in North America. Topsy Turvy World by Jan Steen. Pilgrims/Separatists.

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New England

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  1. New England

  2. Early New England • Virginia Company of Plymouth • 1607 = Failed settlement in Maine • 1608 = Separatists/Pilgrims flee to the Netherlands • Puritans & Separatists wanted to settle in North America

  3. TopsyTurvyWorld by Jan Steen

  4. Pilgrims/Separatists • 1620 = On Mayflower, 35 Pilgrims, 67 other English sail to Virginia • Land on Cape Cod, Massachusetts • 1620 = Created Mayflower Compact contract • ½ of the colonists died before 1621

  5. Massachusetts Bay Colony • John Winthrop, first Governor • Founded in 1630 • “City upon a Hill” for Puritans • Married Puritans settle in town

  6. Town centered around meeting house • 1630 = New England had 11 towns • 1647 = 33 towns • 1700 = 100 towns

  7. Puritan Meetinghouse • Sabbath Laws • Extensive prayer meetings

  8. Puritan Family • Migrated to New England in families • 5th Commandment extended to all superiors • All church members could vote • 1630s = 40% of New England’s male population could vote

  9. New England vs. Chesapeake • 1600s = men lived to 65, women lived to 60 • Almost equal # of men and women • Family did labor • Encouraged sobriety • Got rid of Christmas • Men lived to 48, women lived to 44 • Much more men than women • Indentured servants & slaves did labor

  10. Challenges to Puritan Orthodoxy • 1635 = Roger Williams, “A man godly and zealous, having many precious parts, but very unsettled in judgment” • Fled to Providence, Rhode Island in 1644

  11. Anne Hutchinson • Covenant of Works vs. Covenant of Grace • Fan of Cotton Mather • Banished from Massachusetts • Fled to Long Island

  12. Quakers • William Penn wanted to create a religious refuge • Pennsylvania became a “holy experiment” Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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