Puritan New England & The Middle Colonies
Chapters 2.3 & 2.4 Notes
Puritans Create a “New England”
Puritanism had its origins in the English Reformation
Puritans emigrated in order to create a model society
Separatists founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620
1629, John Winthrop obtained a royal charter for a joint-stock company – The Massachusetts Bay Company
Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630, The Arbela lands in the New World
Winthrop and the Puritans didn’t believe in Social Equality or Political Democracy
Still more democratic than England Very close ties between Church & State Puritans came over in families
Dissent in the Puritan Community
Roger Williams caused a major stir in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Williams was ordered to be arrested by the General Court
Anne Hutchinson posed an even greater threat than Williams
Hutchinson was banished in 1638
North Americans Resist Colonial Expansion
Conflicts arose over land use between natives and settlers
1637, Connecticut – Pequot War Colonists brutally massacred the Pequot on
the Mystic River to end the war King Philip’s War erupted under Metacom
in the spring of 1675 Finally food shortages, disease, and heavy
casualties forced the Native Americans to surrender
The Dutch Found New Netherland
1621, Dutch Government granted Dutch West India Company permission to colonize New Netherland
1655, Dutch take over New Sweden The colony opened its doors to a
variety of people Relatively friendly with Native
Americans 1664, England takes control of the
colony
The Quakers Settle Pennsylvania 1660s, Quakers faced
massive persecution in England
William Penn saw his colony as a “holy experiment”
For more than 50 years the Pennsylvania colony had no major conflicts with Native Americans
Vigorously recruited immigrants from around Western Europe
Principles of equality, cooperation, and religious tolerance eventually become a blueprint for the new American nation
WILLIAM PENN LIVES!!!!!!
Thirteen Colonies 1632, Lord Baltimore foundsMaryland 1663, King Charles II grants territories of Northand South Carolina 1732, James Ogelthorpestarts Georgia as a proposed debtor’s colony By 1752, 13 British Coloniesdominated the New World