Chapter 2 Section 4 New England Colonies. The Pilgrims Pilgrims left England because of religious...

Chapter 2Section 4

New England Colonies

The Pilgrims

Pilgrims left England because of religious conflict

They were Puritans, people who wanted to purify the church of Catholic rituals

All Pilgrims were Puritans, not all Puritans were Pilgrims

Pilgrims tried the Netherlands first, but ultimately settled on Virginia

Plymouth Colony The Pilgrims landed

in Massachusetts

They created Mayflower Compact.

The Pilgrims faced difficult conditions and half of them died in the first three months

American Indians, such as Squanto, helped the colonists survive

Massachusetts Bay Colony The founders of Mass.

Bay did not want to cut all ties with England

They came to provide other Christians with a model of how a society should be, “A city on a hill”

Religious Dissent A minister named

Thomas Hooker founded a colony in the Connecticut Valley

There his settlers adopted the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the world’s first written constitution.

Anne Hutchinson Pilgrims fled England

to practice their own religion

Puritans believed only men should preach

She fled to Rhode Island with her family

Rhode Island Founded by Roger

Williams

Williams was banished from Massachusetts for believing Native Americans should be paid for their land

Pequot War The Puritans viewed

the NA’s as lazy savages

War broke out between Colonists and the Pequot tribe

The Colonists destroyed a village of 700 women and children

Praying Towns Puritans offered

protection to NA’s who agreed to move into a town and accept English life

King Phillip’s War A NA named Metacom,

called King Phillip by the colonists, was accused of leading a rebellion

Starvation and lack of ammunition defeated the NA’s, who lost most of their land as a result

Chapter 2Section 5

The Middle Colonies

NY and Dirty Jersey NYC was originally

called New Amsterdam

People from all over settled in NY, so there was little allegiance to the Dutch

New Joisey The English took the

colony without a shot being fired

James, the Duke of York, was named proprietor of the colony.

Pennsylvania William Penn

acquired a land grant from King Charles II as payment for a debt owed his father

Penn wanted to make his colony a haven for peace loving Quakers

Delaware The following year

the Duke of York gave him Delaware

Diversity The Middle Colonies

developed an ethnic and religious diversity unmatched in the colonies.

They proved that political order could be maintained without uniformity.