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Chapter 3 Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700
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Protestant Reformation Martin Luther- Wittenberg’s Cathedral 1517 John Calvin (Calvinists)= “predestined” visible saints Henry VIII and the Church of England –Puritans wanted to “purify”
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Pilgrims (Separatists) Left for Holland 1608 Dutchification Left for Virginia (1620), ended up in New England Mayflower Compact (41 adult males- mostly non- Separatists) Deadly first winter Thanksgiving William Bradford (governor)
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Carefully restored, the modest village at Plymouth looks today much as it did nearly four hundred years ago.
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Sources of the Puritan “Great Migration” to New Eng land, 1620–1650
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Massachusetts Bay Colony Charles I= crackdown on Puritans (1629)= new charter Great Migration of 1630’s John Winthrop (1 st governor), “City Upon a Hill” mixed with economic prosperity Suffrage= 2/5 of men (Congregationalists) God’s Law, Protestant Work Ethic
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The Great English Migration, ca. 1630–1642 Much of the early history of the United States was written by New Englanders, who were not disposed to emphasize the larger exodus of English migrants to the Caribbean islands. When the mainland colonists declared in dependence in 1776, they hoped that these island outposts would join them, but the existence of the British navy had a dissuading effect.
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Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth Social harmony, no dissenters Quakers flogged, expelled, executed Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams- banished Rhode Island “Sewer”= all welcomed –Chartered in 1644
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Anne Hutchinson, Dissenter Mistress Hutchinson (1591–1643) held unorthodox views that challenged the authority of the clergy and the very integrity of the Puritan experiment in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. An outcast in her day, she has been judged a heroine in the eye of history. This statue in her honor, erected in the nineteenth century, now graces the front of the Boston, Massachusetts, Statehouse.
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Seventeenth-Century New England Settlements
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Puritans vs. Indians ¾ of tribes dead before Pilgrims Wampanoag= treaty (Chief Massasoit, Squanto- interpreter) More settlers= hostile relations 1637 Pequot War Pan Indian alliance 1675 Metacom (King Philip’s War)= last resistance
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Colonial Independence New England Confederation 1643 Semi-autonomous Restoration of Charles II= punishment for Bay Colony Dominion of New England (London imposed) Navigation Laws Sir Edmund Andros Glorious Revolution “Salutary neglect” under William & Mary
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Dutch Residue in NY New Netherlands ≠ 1 st priority Charles II granted land to Duke of York Control down to Carolinas Cultural holdovers (aristocratic)
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Quaker Pennsylvania and Neighbors Quakers= more simple, persecuted William Penn land grant 1681 Tried peaceful Indian relations (outsiders overruled) Representative assembly with male landowners Grew rapidly New Jersey and Delaware
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