1. Chapter Three: Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700)
PowerPoint Slides for The American Pageant, 12th edition
Constructed by Mr. Freccia

2. English Church Issues Anglican = Church of England
Catholic Church but w/out Pope
Calvin, the “elect”, & conversion
God’s “divine plan”
Appealed to middle class
Puritans = “Calvinize” the C of E
Purify religion away from Catholic base
Saints vs. Sinners (elite or open)
Separatists = broke w/ C of E (they were wicked haaaard core!)

3. The Mayflower

4. Pilgrims?
vs.
Puritans?

5. Sources of Puritan Migration

6. William Bradford

7. The Mayflower Compact November 11, 1620

8. The First Thanksgiving
October 1621

10. We shall be as a city on a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.
John Winthrop
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Royal Charter
Less radical than Plymouth
Bigger and more successful than Plymouth
Town meetings a major influence
Church & State
Freemen/voting
Government enforces God’s laws
Repress “animal instincts”
Protestant work ethic
We shall be as a city on a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.

11. Covenant Theology “Covenant of Grace”: “Social Covenant” (the elect):
between Puritan communities and God.
“Social Covenant” (the elect):
Between members of Puritan communities with each other.
Required mutual watchfulness.
No toleration of deviance or disorder.
No privacy.

12. 1650

13. Characteristics of New England Settlements
Low mortality  average life expectancy was 70 years of age.
Many extended families.
Average 6 children per family.
Average age at marriage:
Women – 22 years old
Men – 27 years old.

14. Patriarchy
Authoritarian male father figures controlled each household.
Patriarchal ministers and magistrates controlled church congregations and household patriarchs.

15. Land Division in Sudbury, MA: 1639-1656

16. Puritan “Rebels” Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Religious toleration.
Separation of church and state.
Threatened patriarchal control.
Antinomialism [predestination fatalist]

18. A Pequot Village Destroyed, 1637
Mystic River Massacre changes Native/English relations

19. King Philip and his War (1675-1676)
Native Americans UNITE!

20. Population of the New England Colonies

23. More Like Later America Than Other Regions!
Economic diversity.
Large cities  more cosmopolitan culture.
Some slavery [6%-12% of the population].
Ethnic and religious diversity.
Religious toleration.
“Bread Colonies.”

24. New Amsterdam, 1639

25. Governor of New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
Governor of New Amsterdam

26. William Penn
The “Holy Experiment”

27. Penn & Native Americans