1. New England Colonies

3. Massachusetts
Separatists wanted to SEPARATE…to leave the Church and set up their own.
Called themselves pilgrims b/c their journey was for religious reason
Puritans – wanted to reform the Angilican Church (think to PURIFY)

4. Mass. Cont’d The Separatists make the pilgrimage on the Mayflower
landed in Plymouth, Mass. 1620
Wrote Mayflower Compact – set of laws for the colonists to live by
Received help from Nat. Amer. In farming, hunting, fishing – Squanto and Samoset
They could practice religion freely if in return they would give V. Company a share of their profits.

5. Massachusetts
1630 – Puritans form the Massachusetts Bay Company
They received charter to est. colony north of Plymouth
Wanted society based on the Bible and PURITAN BELIEFS
John Winthrope – colony’s governor
Settled and called it Boston
Great Migration – 1630s lots of Puritans went to Mass. Bay for religious freedom

6. Connecticut
Thomas Hooker – unhappy in Mass.
Founded Hartford (CT) 1635
Better soil for farming than Mass.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut – 1st written constitution in America

7. Rhode Island Settled by those forced out of Mass.
Founded by Roger Williams (minister) 1636
Granted land
by Nat. Amer. – who had taken him in after being banished from Mass.
* Believed in religious tolerance! Government should not force people to worship in a certain way

8. New Hampshire
John Wheelwright 1638 – followed in Roger Williams footsteps
Led a group of dissenters from Mass. to the north.
founded town of Exeter
Became indep. Colony in 1679