Puritan New England & The Middle Colonies

Chapters 2.3 & 2.4 Notes

Puritans Create a “New England”

Puritanism had its origins in the English Reformation

Puritans emigrated in order to create a model society

Separatists founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620

1629, John Winthrop obtained a royal charter for a joint-stock company – The Massachusetts Bay Company

Massachusetts Bay Colony

1630, The Arbela lands in the New World

Winthrop and the Puritans didn’t believe in Social Equality or Political Democracy

Still more democratic than England Very close ties between Church & State Puritans came over in families

Dissent in the Puritan Community

Roger Williams caused a major stir in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Williams was ordered to be arrested by the General Court

Anne Hutchinson posed an even greater threat than Williams

Hutchinson was banished in 1638

North Americans Resist Colonial Expansion

Conflicts arose over land use between natives and settlers

1637, Connecticut – Pequot War Colonists brutally massacred the Pequot on

the Mystic River to end the war King Philip’s War erupted under Metacom

in the spring of 1675 Finally food shortages, disease, and heavy

casualties forced the Native Americans to surrender

The Dutch Found New Netherland

1621, Dutch Government granted Dutch West India Company permission to colonize New Netherland

1655, Dutch take over New Sweden The colony opened its doors to a

variety of people Relatively friendly with Native

Americans 1664, England takes control of the

colony

The Quakers Settle Pennsylvania 1660s, Quakers faced

massive persecution in England

William Penn saw his colony as a “holy experiment”

For more than 50 years the Pennsylvania colony had no major conflicts with Native Americans

Vigorously recruited immigrants from around Western Europe

Principles of equality, cooperation, and religious tolerance eventually become a blueprint for the new American nation

WILLIAM PENN LIVES!!!!!!

Thirteen Colonies 1632, Lord Baltimore foundsMaryland 1663, King Charles II grants territories of Northand South Carolina 1732, James Ogelthorpestarts Georgia as a proposed debtor’s colony By 1752, 13 British Coloniesdominated the New World