1. The New England Colonies
How Religion Shaped the Formative Years of American History

2. April Showers Bring May Flowers. What do May Flowers bring?
Pilgrims!!!

3. Plymouth, MA
Left England in 1608 to go to the Netherlands, why?
Agreed to go to Virginia in 1620
Landed in November (!!), 1620

4. Thanksgiving: 1621 style One year after arriving (late Nov. 1621)
Invited Wompanoags
No turkey or pumpkin pie

5. The Mayflower Compact: What’s the big Deal?
Needed because of jurisdiction
Concept of Social Contract
“Consent of the Governed”

6. Massachusetts Bay colony - 1630
NOT PILGRIMS!
Puritans (which means…)
Many settlements in a large area (not just one village)
Took in Plymouth by 1691

7. Indian Relations: And they lived happily ever after…
Or did they?
Friendly relations quickly deteriorate within a couple of generations…why?
Cultural factors
Numbers game

8. Inter Relations: Taking their ball and going home
Religious freedom: a relative term?
Sporadic settlement due to strict beliefs and geog.

9. The decline of Puritanism
Two major events negatively impact the influence of Congregationalism on New England Society
Half Way Covenant
Salem Witch Trials
Started as girls just playing, ended with the deaths of 20 people.