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The English Colonies Ch. 2, sec. 3-4

The English Colonies Ch. 2, sec. 3-4. Main Ideas Puritans come to the New World for religious freedom. After the English Civil War new colonies are established in America. Puritans / Separatists / Pilgrims. Puritans/Separatists leave England for New World for religious freedom

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The English Colonies Ch. 2, sec. 3-4

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  1. The English ColoniesCh. 2, sec. 3-4 Main Ideas Puritans come to the New World for religious freedom. After the English Civil War new colonies are established in America

  2. Puritans / Separatists / Pilgrims Puritans/Separatists leave England for New World for religious freedom Don’t like Anglican Church Pilgrims had fled to Holland, don’t like it, join Puritans on Mayflower establish Plymouth Colony Mayflower Compact reading

  3. Mayflower Compact • Written agreement by consensusof Pilgrims arriving at New Plymouth in November 1620 • Fair and equal laws, for the general good of the settlement and with the will of the majority • Colony was to be free of English law • Devised to set up government from within themselves and written by those to be governed

  4. Massachusetts Bay Colony If you question Puritan ideas – banished!!! Those banished form RI, CT, NH, & Maine • John Winthrop (Gov.) est. Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630s – • Refuge for Puritans • General Court – freemen, those that owned stock in MBC • representative govt • Made laws, elected gov

  5. New England Colonies • Massachusetts • Connecticut • Rhode Island • New Hampshire • Maine (part of Mass.)

  6. New Netherlands New York • Dutch own NN • Henry Hudson hired to find route to the Pacific • Charles II wants NN • 1664 - sends his brother, Duke of York • England takes NN from Dutch • Re-named New York • Not very creative….

  7. Penn’s Woods - Pennsylvania • William Penn Senior owed money by the King • Dies before getting paid • 1680 – Charles II offers the son, William Penn, land as payment • Penn is a Quaker - pacifism

  8. Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia • Maryland • Lord Baltimore • Catholic Colony • NC / SC • At first one • NC – no harbor, • tobacco • SC – Sugar cane • Georgia • Debtor’s Colony

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