New England and the Middle Colonies

Chapter 2

Massachusetts founded by people escaping religious persecution

1st group – Pilgrims

2nd group – Puritans

Fights with AI often

Economy:

1. Fish

2. Shipbuilding

3. Rum

4. Trading

Massachusetts

Pilgrims

Plymouth Colony-1620 Pilgrims=Separatists Religious freedom Mayflower Compact –

document about self-govt William Bradford Thanksgiving

Puritans

Massachusetts Bay Colony-1628

John Winthrop

“city upon a hill” – Boston

Theocracy – government dominated by religion

Harvard – 1636 – 1st college in North America

Pilgrims

Puritans

Other New England Colonies

Rhode Island – Roger Williams – religious toleration

Connecticut – Thomas Hooker – expansion

New Hampshire - Puritans

Dissenters in Mass. Bay Col

Roger Williams – believed in separation of church and stateKicked out; founded Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson- preached at secret meetingsBible is all one needsBanished to Rhode Island

Dissenters Williams Hutchinson

Salem Witchcraft Trial-when: 1692

- what: executed 19 suspected witches

Middle Colonies

New York and New Jersey1664 – captured from Dutch

Purpose: connect southern and New England colonies

NY – Named after Duke of YorkNY = New Netherlands; NYC = New Amsterdam

NJ – Sir George Carteret & Lord BerkeleySplit into East & West JerseyElizabeth

Pennsylvania and Delaware

Founder – William Penn

1680 – Philadelphia( largest city in colonies)

Purpose: safe haven for Quakers (pg. 57)“Holy Experiment” – tolerated all religions

Most prosperous colonyTrading and farming

Delaware…. Who cares – it’s Del-a-where?!