1. Massachusetts Bay Colony Pilgrims and Puritans
Free at Last

2. Vocabulary Pilgrims Mayflower Separatists Mayflower Compact Puritans
Squanto
Purify
New England Way

3. PILGRIMS
Known as Separatists in England - wanted out (to separate) from the Church of England
Were fined, jailed and at times killed b/c of religion
Pilgrims: didn’t want gold but religious freedom
September Mayflower sailed, got off course by Nov. landed in Massachusetts not Virginia

4. The Mayflower 1620  a group of 102 people
Pilgrims were blown off course and landed outside of Jamestown authority.
Outside of the legal authority of the Virginia Co,
Who makes the rules for the new colony?

5. MAYFLOWER COMPACT
ALL ON THE MAYFLOWER AGREED AND SIGNED BEFORE DEPARTING SHIP.
IT WAS THEIR RULES FOR SELF GOVERNMENT

6. MAYFLOWER COMPACT Arrived in Mass. They called it Plymouth.
Wrote document before they got off boat.
Rules for colony saying they word work together.
1st time colonists claimed right to govern themselves!!!

7. That First Year…. Winter of 1620-1621
Only 44 out of the original 102 survived.
None chose to leave in 1621 when the Mayflower sailed back.
Fall of 1621  First “Thanksgiving.”
Colony survived with fur, fish, and lumber.
Plymouth stayed small and economically unimportant.
1691  only 7,000 people
Merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony.

8. Native Americans Helped Pilgrims survive
Squanto - helped the most: gave seeds for corn, beans, pumpkins, & taught them how to plant crops and fish for eel in rivers
Thanksgiving - 2nd autumn after arrival to celebrate good harvest

9. The Others From England
Puritans
Who were they and why were they different?

10. Puritans from England
Wanted to change and “purify” the Church of England not leave the church like the Pilgrims.
Came to North America to worship as they pleased

11. Why were the Puritans Successful?
Well equipped,
prepared
2. Sailed in March
had time to plant
to harvest in fall.
3. Great leadership

12. Massachusetts Bay Colony
How it Grew
Governor John Winthrop
1630 -great migration of Puritans Great Leadership Many professionals, lawyers, land owners, merchants
Wanted Colony to be example to the world as a model community
Puritan belief
Duty
Hard work
Education
These showed their obedience to God

13. Non Puritans did not have same rights as Puritans
The New England Way
Non Puritans did not have same rights as Puritans

14. New England Way continued
Society Stressed
Duty
Godliness
Hard work
Honesty
Education very important- so every one could read the Bible!!!!! Amusements would lead to being lazy

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

16. Hugh Growth in Colony
more than 20,000 people settle in Massachusetts
1691
Massachusetts and Plymouth combine into one called Massachusetts

17. Plymouth Massachusetts Bay
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Categories
Reason for founding the colony
Challenges Colonist’s Faced
People who founded colony
What made the colony successful
Government of the colony
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

18. What was happening in North Carolina
People moving south and Carolina becomes its own colony

19. Vocabulary
Lord Proprietors
Culpepper
Back country
Royal Colony

20. Carolina Grows
Good land around Jamestown, VA becomes scarce. Newcomers begin to settle west and south around the Albormoral sound.
King Creates a new colony and rewards 8 Lords by putting them in charge of the colony. (Lord proprietors)
Residents of Carolina owned the land but had to pay a tax a quit-rent, annual tax to Lords
Settlers in NC less wealthy than Virginia
Settlers around Albarmoral sound were one district and Settlers around Pamlico sound were in another district. First Town, Bath

21. Carolina Grows
Much conflict between groups in North Carolina, created Culpeppers rebellion against the Lord Proprietors and governing North Carolina was difficult.
Tuscora rebelled against settlers and were defeated.
People began to move west
Most people lived east of the fall line. But many came, and settled in the piedmont. Germans, Scotch Irish, Quakers, Moravians
Farming was very difficult for them and they were mostly poor compared to the colonists in the eastern part of the state.

22. Review Settlement of North Carolina
Write down 5 characteristics of the settlement in North Carolina.