1. Mayflower Compact: What can you determine about the NE
colonies based on this document?
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience. IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.

2. Church and State: Peanut Butter and Jelly?
“The Puritans believed in a separation of church and state, but not a separation of the state from God.”

3. The New England Colonies

4. The New England Colonies pg. 50-54
How did the geography of the New England Colonies impact the development of its economy?

5. New England Colonies Basics
Includes:
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Reasons for settlement: mainly for religious purposes – mainly from England (no religious tolerance there)
Economy and Geography: Short growing season (cold) with rocky soil = corn, shipping, fishing, timber

6. Group 1: Introduction Group 2: The Mayflower and Plymouth colony group 3:Bradford and the 1st thanksgiving

7. Puritans and the Church of England
Residents of New England left England b/c they disagreed with the Church of England, also known as the Anglican Church (only legal church)
Known as Puritans (want to purify the church)
Thought it was too similar to Catholic Church and corrupt
Didn’t like hierarchy (Pope)
Leave England to begin their own church in the New World (SEPERATISTS! PILGRIMS!)

8. The Mayflower Compact
Signed by English colonists on the ship Mayflower, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States.

9. Group 4: The city upon a hill

10. Puritans arrive in Massachussetts: New England colony
Motives = to escape religious discrimination
Governor John Winthrop: 1630 more Puritans come to make their colony, “A city upon the hill”… inspiration and example to the rest of the world of how one should be living
You “look up” to something that is higher
Where is god?

12. Group 5: puritan life

13. Puritan Life: Political Rights:
Required all members to attend church, very strict, fined if missed
Male dominated society, women mainly just important for child birth
Harsh punishment if not acting “Godly” (wearing a scarlet A if committed adultery or executed!)
Political Rights:
Had town meetings to make laws (democracy! Legislature makes the laws!)
1631, all male church members had the right to vote (the originals that made the journey to the colony); very strict about this!

14. Group 6: dissent in mass. Bay colony

15. Dissent in MBC Roger Williams: Founder of Rhode Island colony
Banished for speaking out against Church regulation, ‘too strict!”
Establishes universal male suffrage (right to vote) and religious freedom in Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson
female leadership in the church
Personal relationship with God as opposed to church leaders

16. Group 7: Connecticut

17. Connecticut 1636 - Thomas Hooker Hartford, CT
Significance: more gov’t representation and separation of church and state
Non-church members need voting rights
First constitution
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

18. Half-way Covenant
1662, Half Way Covenant gives ½ church members voting rights (no conversion experience, children of original members)
This step increased the number of church members in the colonies, by relaxing the requirements to become involved in the church.
People were willing to become involved with church now if it gave them voting rights in the colony
By 1691, all male landowners gain right to vote regardless of church involvement
Showed there was a diminishing importance of religion in New England. More people focused on making $$$ than worship.

19. Group 8: witchcraft

20.
c. Salem Witch Trials
Blame witches for native attacks, disease, bad things, etc.
Target: women, non-puritans, poor
“afflicted child” went into convulsions, ran around, hid under furniture
Around 20 put to death
IMPORTANCE = those accused were showing a loss religious passion…making $ and freedoms become priority

21. Conflict with native Americans

22. Conflict with Natives in New England
Pequot War (1637)
NE colonist accuse Pequots of murdering English settler over a land argument
Significance: showed continued removal of native land at the expense of European expansion (over 700 dead)
Natives were not going to give up land without a fight
NE fought with enemies of the Pequot
Pequot nation was eliminated; few survivors went to live in the “praying towns”

23. Conflict with Natives in New England
Praying Towns:
Puritans try to convert NA with missionaries
Controlled location
1674: 14 praying towns with 1,600 inhabitants
Assimilation  clothing, religion, language, gender norms

24. Let’s read about King Phillip’s War