1. DO NOW:
Discuss how much of a role you believe religion should have in government, politics, education, and in people’s daily lives. 1

2. Pilgrims vs. Puritans Puritans Pilgrims Predestination Separatists 2
Good Works could not save those predestined for hell
No one is certain of their spiritual status
Wanted to totally purify the Church of England (Too corrupt)
Pilgrims
Separatists
Didn’t want to share their churches with the “dammed”
Believed in a total break from the Church of England 2

3. The Mayflower 1620 group of 102 people (half separatists) set sail
Virginia Co. gave them permission to settle
Took a wrong turn due to winter and ended up in Cape Cod, MA 3

4. Mayflower Compact Signed November 11, 1620
Written and signed by Pilgrims before they got off the ship
Agreement to form a crude government
First official government document in the United States 4

5. The First Year… Winter of 1620-21….only 44 of 102 survived
Fall of 1621 = First Thanksgiving
Colony survived with fur, lumber, fish, and Native America help
Plymouth stayed small
1691 – 7,000 people 5

6. Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritan merchants formed the Massachusetts Bay Company.
In 1630 John Winthrop set out with 11 ships and 700 people for New England.
This colony grew faster than Plymouth.
Success of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies inspired the Great Migration.
Over 20,000 English men and women came to settle in New England.

8. Puritan Characteristics
Only allowed images in death, but not as memorials
Mixture of Church and State Gov.
Great Importance on Family
Father controls everything
Travel with family
Can take away kids

9. Would you rather be a Pilgrim or a Puritan?
Puritans
Average Life Span 70 years
Average children per family – 6
Average Age for males to marry – 27
Females – 22

10. New Colonies grow from MA Bay
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker led a group to Conn in mid- 1630’s
1639 wrote a new plan for government
New Hampshire
Separate Colony in 1679 10

11. Roger Williams – Rhode Island
Williams was a popular minister
“Forced Religion stinks in the nostrils of God”
You had to purchase land from Native Americans
Royal Charter = “National Sin”
1635 – Found guilty of “New and Dangerous Opinions” and exiled
RI was about religious freedom and separation of Church and State
RI is seen a “Sewer”
Do you Agree with Williams or the Puritans? Explain. 11

12. Ann Hutchinson Things wrong with her She was a women – cant an opinion
You didn’t need minister or the bible to interrupt God
Held meetings a her house where people would speak against Winthrop
Arrested and defended herself successfully 12

13. Economies MA Bay New Hampshire Conn. Rhode Island 13
Fishing, Lumber, Shipbuilding, Triangular Trade, Rum, Whaling
New Hampshire
Trade, Fishing
Conn.
Triangular Trade
Rhode Island
Shipping, Livestock, Agriculture 13

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