1. Block 2 F. Lara K. Cuyuche V. Smith
Massachusetts Bay
Block 2
F. Lara
K. Cuyuche
V. Smith

2. Key Words/Terms Puritans Great Puritan Migration Trianglar Trade
Pequot War
King Phillip’s War
Algonquian- speaking tribes
Charlestown
Salem
House of Seven Gables

3. History Founded by John Winthrop along with group of Puritans.
Religious independence lead to departure from England.
Wanted to become a model for others to look up to.
“A city upon a hill”
Great Migration - migration of refugees coming to the New World

4. Government
Originally governed by the English Common Law and precepts of the bible.
Eventually followed Body of Liberties
John Haynes was the initial governor
Democratic tendency of government from an independent helped form other colonies government form
Was called The General Court
The General Court helped elect who was being introduced/removed into/out of the government.
John Winthrop Jr. obtained a charter for Massachusetts from King Charles II of England.
To vote you needed to be a freeman

5. Population About 20,000 between 1630-1640 Great Puritan Migration
Over 30,000 Native Americans, various tribes (1636)
Wampanoag, Pequot, Nipmuck, and Massachuset
Algonquian-speaking
90% killed- 17th century
1676- Boston- 4,000 residents
1730’s- Boston- 13,000 residents

6. Culture Men “head of the house” Women
welfare of children, but not common to work
Children
baptized, some form of schooling
English immigrants- “a vast and unpeopled country”
Developed region, large population of Native Americans
Tribes
Different way of Life
Cultural misunderstandings
Violent confrontations
Puritans- interior- primitive lifestyle
Native- conversion practices
Language, Abandoning

7. Economy “Large Diverse Economy” 1630’s- colony struggled
1640’s- suffered first economic depression
1641- Slavery
First state
Triangle Trade
A three-step trade route in which merchants imported slaves from Africa, sold them in the West Indies and then bought cane sugar to bring back to Mass. to make molasses and rum (1644)
1692- domestic beef, Salem Sheriff George Corwin
Captain John Turner- sold fish, plantation owners
1750’s- successful, large trade industry

8. Religion Protestantism
Puritans did not grant religious freedom to others who had unsimilar religious beliefs.
They held power within their community of villages.
Many accusations of witchcraft lead to countless executions.
Puritans wanted their children to be bright in both religious and academic environments.
Any sins that made were paid with the penalty of death.

9. Major Events And Important People
Massachusetts Bay chartered
Roger Williams
John Winthrop
Body of Liberties
King Phillip’s War
Massachusetts charter annulled
Granted New Charter
William Phips
Witchcraft Trials
John Wheelwright
Anne Hutchinson