1. Massachusetts Bay Colony- Pilgrims & Puritans
The City on a Hill
Massachusetts Bay Colony- Pilgrims & Puritans

2. The Pilgrims
Religious Separatists who wished to leave the Church of England
Wanted religious freedom
Arrived on the Mayflower in 1620
Settled the Plymouth Colony
Landed on Plymouth Rock

3. Plymouth Rock

4. The New Colony Fathers agreed to the Mayflower Compact
Agreement to live together and obey the law
Taught to survive by Squanto (Pokanoket Indian)
Made peace with Massasoit
leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy
First Thanksgiving

5. The Puritans
Religious group (Calvinists) which wished to purify the Church of England of all Catholicism
Believed in direct divine guidance & predestination
God’s Chosen “Elect”
Stern morality
Persecuted in England

6. A Bible Republic Decide to move to America for religious freedom
Create the Massachusetts Bay Company
charter from Charles I
Brought their charter with them to Mass.
Led by John Winthrop

7. Winthrop and the Puritans
ships and 1000 settlers
20,000 between (Great Migration)
Come as families
Want to create the “Bible Republic” or a “City on a Hill”
Perfect society as a" community of the saints”
Union of church and state

8. The New Colony Called the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Main settlement is Boston
Governor is John Winthrop
Elected legislature called the General Court
Only the Elect may vote or be a church member
Believed in the community

9. A Community of Believers
Lived in villages surrounded by their farms for mutual protection
physical & spiritual protection
Every member of the community was responsible for every other member
Life centered on church & family
Family headed by the father
total responsibility for his family
Local gov. decisions made in town meetings

10. “Satanic Ignorance”
Believed that revelation came from the Bible through the Minister
Had to be educated to be a minister
Founded Harvard in 1636 to train ministers
Entire community should be able to read

11. Dissidents in the Bible Republic
Puritans persecuted those who did not agree with them
Quakers were beaten and exiled
Catholics totally excluded from the colony

12. Roger Williams (1603-83) Respected Puritan minister
Exiled in 1636 & founded colony of Rhode Island
Disagreed with Puritans over not paying Indians for land and separation of church & state
Founded the first Baptist Church in America
Advocate of religious freedom & separation of church & state

13. Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) Anne Hutchinson
Puritan Woman
Tried and exiled to Rhode Island for heresy and preaching as a woman
“female presumption”
She advocated Antinomianism
direct personal religious experience
Killed by Indians in New Netherlands
Hutchinson & Williams represent concept of Freedom of conscience

14. Another New Colony
Rev. Thomas Hooker disagreed with suffrage being limited to church members
Led 100 settlers south & founded Connecticut in 1636
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)- first written Constitution in America

15. New England Society
Longer life spans- cleaner water and better climate
Life based on family
Migration as families
Very high fertility rates
More exposure to elder family members-”invented grandparents”

16. Community Life Lived as communities Made decisions in town meetings
Public School Law (1647) required all towns over 50 families to provide a public school

17. New England Economy Less dependent on agriculture Poor soil
Economy centered on ocean
Fishing
ship building
whaling
trade