1. Settlement of new England

2. Protestant reformation
Martin Luther – 95 Theses
Bible alone is source of God’s word
John Calvin
Searched for conversion
Conversion – intense, personal experience in which God revealed the elect’s heavenly destiny
Predestination
God had predestined certain people to be saved
elect

3. calvinism
”Conversion” - intense, personal experience in which God revealed the elect’s heavenly
“Sanctified Lives” – reveal that they were members of the elect, visible saints
Protestant work ethic - known for being hard-working, sun up to sun down

4. Puritans v. pilgrims Puritans Pilgrims
People who wanted to purify the Catholic ritual out of the Church of England
Pilgrims
Separatists Puritans who want to break away from the Church of England completely because of its Catholic traditions

6. Pilgrims Leave religious persecution
1608 to Netherlands – unemployment rates high
Received a Charter from Va. Co
1620 arrive in Plymouth
Landed in wrong place
Mayflower Compact – an agreement to abide by laws and government
VALUABLE PRECEDENT
Town Meetings
Adult male
Direct democracy

7. Plymouth colony (pilgrims)
– only 44 of 102 survived
1621 – First Thanksgiving with Wampanoag
Economy – fur, fish, lumber
William Bradford
Governor – well educated
Feared influence of Massachusetts Bay Colony
1691 – 7,000 population
Merged with Massachusetts Bay

10. The Massachusetts bay colony (Puritans)
King Charles I
Persecute remaining Puritans
11 ships, 1000 passengers
John Winthrop
”City upon a Hill”
Boston
Protestant Work Ethic
Part of the Great English Migration
20,000
Becomes most influential and largest of colonies

13. Rhode island
Those who opposed of differed in the “shared belief” of the “Bible Commonwealth” were ostracized or banished
1636- Started with no legal charter, squatters
1644 – obtains charter
Unwelcomed or unwanted people from other colonies (Bay Colony) wound up in Rhode Island

14. “Rouges island”
“Those who opposed or differed in the shared belief of the Bible Commonwealth were ostracized or banished
Roger Williams
Salem Minister
Extreme sepratist
Encouraged clery to break completely with Anglican Church
Chriticized treatment of Natives
1635 – put on trial and banished to England
Natives held him escape

15. Rhode Island cont 1636 – Williams established Providence Colony (RI)
Set up the FIRST Baptist Church in the colonies
total freedom of Religion
No church attendance, no oaths, no tax supported church

16. Puritan “Rebel” Anne Hutchinson heretic Outspoken
Held Bible study in her home
1638 – put on trial and banished – went to Rhode Island

17. Connecticut 1635- Rev. Thomas Hooker
Blue Laws – regulated morality in public
1639 – The Fundamental Orders
First modern constitution
Maine part of Massachusetts until 1820

18. Puritans and natives 1620 – Disease killed ¾ of coastal tribes
Wampanoag befriended sailors
Squanto
Knew English
1621 – Chief Massasoit signed a peace treaty with Plymouth Pilgrims = 1st Thanksgiving
The Pequot War – 1637 – English and Native allies attacked Pequot villages
1637 – English, Mohegan, and Narragansett allies set fire to fortified Pequot town ( )
Puritan praying towns – small attempt to convert Natives and assimilate them

19. King philip’s war (metacom’s rebellion)
Chief Metacom led an alliance of tribes and attacked English in New England
Destroyed 12 towns
1676 Metacom was beheaded, drawn and quarted
Wife and kids sold as slaves
Metacom’s head placed on display for years in Plymouth

20. New england confederation
Experiment in Unity
England – civil wars
Salutary neglect
Purpose: Common defense against Natives, Dutchk, and French
1643 – MBC, Plymouth New Haven, Connecticut Valley
Almost all Puritan

22. New england Navigation Laws lead to smuggling Increase smuggling
Royal Authority imposed on the people
TENSIONS
Sir Edmund Andros
Named head of dominion –military – in Boston
Affiliated with Anglican Church
Soldiers disruptive
Curbed town meetings, freedom of press, taxed without consent
Fled to England