 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

 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

 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

 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

 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

 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

 1632, Lord Baltimore founds Maryland  1663, King Charles II grants territories of North and South Carolina  1732, James Ogelthorpe starts Georgia as a proposed debtor’s colony  By 1752, 13 British Colonies dominated the New World