the new england colonies & the puritans why did puritans come to the new colonies? why did some...
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The New England
Colonies & The Puritans
Why did Puritans come to the new colonies?
Why did some people leave the Puritan colonies?
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Puritans
• Pilgrims: wanted to separate from English Church
• Puritans didn’t want to separate from English church just wanted to reform it– Simpler way of worship get rid of
• Organ music• Decorated church• Special clothing
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Puritans• Puritans ranged in all
classes: wealthy some farmers, some well-educated some aren’t
• Charles I didn’t like the Puritans– Jailed them– Canceled business
charters
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Puritans
• 1629 England had fallen on “evil and declining times”
• John Winthrop: believed they should start a new colony– Becomes 1st
governor
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Puritans
• Tradition of oldest son inheriting wealth– Got the shaft if you weren’t the oldest– Go to New world all the land you could
hope for
Puritans
• 1630: 1000 people in Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Only stock holders got the right to vote– Most people who came weren’t stock
holders– Could you see some issues that arise?
Puritans
• Then . . . . Puritans wanted to keep non- Puritans out of government– Religious freedom?
Puritans
• All male church members got the right to vote and elect representatives to an assembly: General Court
• By 1640 15,000 people come
Unhappy Puritans
• Thomas Hooker: left puritans to settle in Connecticut– No happy that governor and church
officials had too much power– New colony had strict limits on government
Unhappy Puritans
• 1639 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut: – All men who owned property got the right
to vote– Limited governors power
Unhappy Puritans
• Roger Williams: – minister in Salem– Not liked by all puritans because of his
ideas• Church and state should be separate!• Shouldn’t force people to go to church
Unhappy Puritans
• Religious Tolerance: wiliness to let other practice their own beliefs
• He was order to leave the colony– Fled – Spent winter with Natives– Bought a settlement, Rhode Island– Freedom of religion
Oh no you didn’t!
• Anne Hutchison:– Devote Puritan– Questioned some of ministers teaching
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Oh no you didn’t!
• Puritan were mad, specially because women didn’t have the right to explain God’s Law
• Appeared before Massachusetts General Court– She really didn’t break any laws
Oh no you didn’t!
• Things looked good then . . .– She said God spoke,
“By the voice of His spirit to my soul.”
– Court kicked her out: she went to Rhode Island
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Natives & Puritans
• 1670s 45,000 English settlers• Natives aren’t to keen on the newbies• Wampanoag Chief (Metacom) was
ticked– Started attacking the settlers
• 12 towns destroyed• 600 dead• Metacom and 1000 natives eventually captured
and sold into slavery
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Puritans
• Sabbath: holy day of rest– Couldn’t work– No play– Had to go to church-last all day!
Puritans
• Women and men separated at church
• Natives and Black could sit in Balcony
Puritans
• Town meetings: where settlers discussed and voted on issues
• Strict laws!– 1692 Salem Village executed 20 men and
women because they were convicted as witches
Puritans
• Economy: – Rocky soil hard to farm– Lots of wild turkey and deer– Huge ports– Whale hunters
Puritans
• 1700s Puritan tradition declined but before it does there is a little bit a craziness
• Outbreak of Witchcraft Hysteria
Crazy town
• Outbreak of Witchcraft Hysteria in Salem– Strong belief that Satan is acting in the
world– Belief Satan recruits witches and wizards
to work for him– In times of trouble Satan is more likely
active
Puritans go a little crazy
• 1684 Witchcraft is outlawed• 1888 Goody Gloveris accused of acting bizarre
because Martha Goodwin children were acting weird
• The weirdness spreads to two other children• The story gets weirder. . . .
– Listen as I tell the story– http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/29529-
assignment-discovery-salem-witch-trials-video.htm– http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/28687-
assignment-discovery-historical-documents-video.htm
• Let’s read the cross examination
Death
• June 10 Bridget Bishop • July 19 Rebecca Nurse Sarah Good
Susannah Martin Elizabeth Howe Sarah Wildes
• August 19 George Burroughs Martha Carrier John Willard George Jacobs, Sr. John Proctor
• September 22 Martha Corey Mary Eastey Ann Pudeator Alice Parker Mary Parker Wilmott Redd Margaret Scott Samuel Wardwell
Death
• One accused witch (or wizard, as male witches were often called) was pressed to death on September 19 when he failed to plead guilty or not guilty:Giles Corey
• Other accused witches died in prison:Sarah Osborn Roger Toothaker Lyndia Dustin Ann Foster
Salem Witch Trial
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEv4FlmHbYY– Part 1 & Part 2
Work Cited
• http://www.nps.gov/history/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/histcontextsd.htm
• http://endtimepilgrim.org/puritans.htm• http://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/
2009/09/22/feast-of-charles-i-king-of-england-and-scotland-january-30/
• http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/John_Winthrop/
• http://amscoextra.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-fear-not-what-man-can-do-unto-me.html