2.3 Puritan and PilgrimsWhere everyone is watching you….

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Religious Reasons

-Henry VIII begins the Anglican Church

-Reformers want to rid the church of all Roman Catholic traditions

- Pilgrims 1620

- Puritans 1629

wanted to purify the Church of England

individual and congregational control of religion

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The immigration of the Pilgrims to New England occurred in stages. But that they had to go somewhere became apparent soon enough. Theirs was the position of the Separatist: they believed that the reforms of the Anglican church had not gone far enough,

This of course meant leaving the country, and they left for Holland in 1608.

After 12 years, they decided to move again. Having gone back to England toobtain the backing of the Virginia Company, 102 Pilgrims set out for America

Pilgrims

Pilgrims

-Pilgrims also called Separatists because they wanted to practice their own religion

-Plymouth Mass. 1620

-Mayflower Compact

set up direct democracy for the colony

The Mayflower’s passengers knew that the New World’s earlier settlers failed due to a lack of government. They hashed out the content and eventually composed the Compact for the sake of their own survival.

All 41 of the adult male members on the Mayflower signed the Compact. Being the first written laws for the new land, the Compact determined authority within the settlement and was the observed as such until 1691. This established that the colony (mostly persecuted Separatists), was to be free of English law. It was devised to set up a government from within themselves and was written by those to be governed.

When creating the Mayflower Compact, the signers believed that covenants were not only to be honored between God and man, but also between each other. They had always honored covenants as part of their righteous integrity and agreed to be bound by this same principle with the Compact. John Adams and many historians have referred to the Mayflower Compact as the foundation of the U.S. Constitution written more than 150 later.

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Pilgrims

-colony struggled but received Indian help to grow crops

Thanksgiving

Squanto

-William Bradford

Pilgrim leader

“Of Plymouth Plantation”

Massachusetts Bay Company

-Puritans

-John Winthrop - lawyer

-City on a Hill

be an example to the world

Special covenant with God - create moral society to serve as beacon on the hill

-connection between church and state

- right to vote only for stockholders and adult male members of the Church

- taxes paid for Puritan church

-strict adherence to Puritan rules

Puritan Dissent

-Anne Hutchinson

belief in individual worship

banished in famous trial

fled to R.I.

Puritan Dissent

-Roger Williams

Separation of Church and State

exiled from the colony

fled and founded Providence R.I.

Indian Resistance

-some cooperation but short lived

-disease, land, and religion caused disputes

-Pequot War, 1637

massacre of Indians

-King Philip’s War 1657

lots of deaths on both sides but colonists win and Indian resistance fades

New Netherlands

-Henry Hudson

-Englishman sailing for the Dutch

-Explored the Hudson R. and Hudson Bay areas

-Dutch found colony at New Amsterdam

-lots of different immigrants

-religious freedom

-English take colony in 1664

-renamed New York

-Part of the region divided into the colony of New Jersey