1. Puritans

2. Church of England Pilgrims Separatists Puritans Church of England:
Everyone required to join
Group of Separatists. The best way to “separate”
from the Church of England was to come to New World.
Group of Puritans. The only way to “purify” the
Church of England was to “separate” from it and try again.
Wanted to “purify” the Church of England by changing it.

3. Puritans
Puritans are harassed by King Charles and the Church and flee England in 1630
They wanted to “purify” the Church of it’s Catholic practices
New England: King granted the Puritans a charter to settle well north of Virginia in a new colony. Pilgrims set sail in 1620.
Massachusetts Bay Colony: First colony in New England, where the Pilgrims land.
Covenant: An agreement between two sides (the most serious kind)

4. Mayflower

5. What lessons did the Puritans draw from Jamestown?
Charter
Joint-Stock Company
Brought lots of supplies
Settled on farmland
Covenant with God
Covenant with Each Other: Mayflower Compact
Covenant with Natives: Wampanoag Treaty

6. Lessons #1-2 1) Charter 2) Joint-Stock Company
Charter: Permission slip from the King to settle in the New World.
Puritans couldn’t get along with the King of England, they moved to the New World.
The Puritans get religious freedom
The King still gets taxes and gets rid of the Puritans
Joint-Stock Company: A company owned by all Puritans coming to the New World.
This company helps Puritans buy ships, supplies, and recruit colonists to move to the New World.
Wouldn’t moving be easier if you owned your own U-Haul business?

7. Lessons #3-4 Lesson 3: Brought lots of supplies
Puritans came to settle as farmers, so they brought equipment and supplies to help provide for themselves in the New World.
Lesson 4: Settled on farmland
The Pilgrims settled on farmland, not in a swamp.

8. Lesson 5: Covenant with God
Puritans strongly supported the idea that church and government should work together to promote spiritual holiness and business success
Puritans had the opportunity to create their own society, so why not fulfill their covenant with God by using government?

9. Lesson 6: Covenant with Each Other
Mayflower Compact: an agreement written aboard the Mayflower.
The Puritans and Businessmen to run the colonies of New England by coming together to make decisions.
Roots of Democracy!
Constitution: written plan of government
Voting: coming together to make decisions
Majority Rule: If over half of votes say so, then it’s the law

10. Political Development of Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Puritans held town meetings were men met to make laws and discussed community issues
Only male church members could vote on issues and elect their representatives
Those that could vote in local government are called “freemen”

11. Pilgrim Leadership
William Bradford, 1st governor of Plymouth proclaims Natives are “savage and brutish men”
Miles Standish, a soldier will attack enemies of Wampanoag and placed Native heads on pikes
Pilgrims begin to live on Native lands and live in Indian homes left empty because of diseases and warfare

12. Early Troubles
Pilgrims go through their own ‘Starving Time” minus cannibalism
Indians will help them learn about planting crops under the condition that Pilgrims protect them from their enemies
This is why there is a famous first Thanksgiving in the fall of 1621

13. Lesson 7: Covenant with Native Americans
Thanksgiving, 1621
Wampanoag Treaty:
Also known as the “Thanksgiving Treaty.”
Puritans signed a peace and trade agreement with the local Native American tribe, the Wampanoag
Natives taught the Puritans to plant corn and traded goods
The treaty was celebrated with a feast, which is the inspiration for the modern U.S. tradition of Thanksgiving
It was called Thanksgiving because the Pilgrims
were thankful that peace with the Wampanoag
and a successful harvest would prevent another
Starving Time.

14. With Natives they at first learned how to agricultural techniques and learn how to farm corn, beans, pumpkins, and potatoes
Puritans trade items like: blankets, iron pots, metal tipped arrows and guns
Puritans concentrated on livestock which needed open fields to graze and desired Native land