1. Do Now:
Discuss how much of a role you believe religion should have in government, politics, education, and in people’s daily lives.

2. Pilgrims vs. Puritans Puritans Pilgrims Predestination Separatists
Good Works could not save those predestined for hell
No one is certain of their spiritual status
Wanted to totally purify the Church of England (Too corrupt)
Pilgrims
Separatists
Didn’t want to share their churches with the “dammed”
Believed in a total break from the Church of England

3. Plymouth Colony
Some English Separatists moved to the Netherlands in 1608.
Their children were becoming more Dutch than English.
War with Spain seemed near.
They were ready to move to the New World.
Led by William Bradford, 35 Separatists joined 66 others on the Mayflower in 1620.
Their sponsor, the Virginia Company, intended they land near the Hudson River.
They landed instead at Cape Cod.
Founded Plymouth Colony south of present-day Boston
Colony never grew very large

4. The Mayflower 1620 group of 102 people (half separatists) set sail
Virginia Co. gave them permission to settle
Took a wrong turn due to winter and ended up in Cape Cod, MA

5. Mayflower Compact Signed November 11, 1620
Written and signed by Pilgrims before they got off the ship
Agreement to form a crude government
First official government document in the United States

6. How will the new colony be ruled?
After sailing across the stormy Atlantic Ocean for two months, the Mayflower had finally landed—but in the wrong place. Too far north to be within the jurisdiction of any recognized authority, the colonists decided they must work together to survive. Even before landing on present-day Cape Cod, the 41 men had signed the Mayflower Compact, in which they promised allegiance to England’s King James and agreed to make just laws for the good of the colony. They also agreed that their government would be chosen by the people. In an age when monarchs ruled absolutely, the Mayflower Compact put the power to rule in the hands of the governed.

7. The First Year… Winter of 1620-21….only 44 of 102 survived
Fall of 1621 = First Thanksgiving
Colony survived with fur, lumber, fish, and Native America help
Plymouth stayed small
1691 – 7,000 people

8. Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritan merchants formed the Massachusetts Bay Company.
In 1630 John Winthrop set out with 11 ships and 700 people for New England.
This colony grew faster than Plymouth.
Other towns were established nearby.
Massachusetts General Court was formed.
Success of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies inspired the Great Migration.
Over 20,000 English men and women came to settle in New England.

10. Puritan Characteristics
Only allowed images in death, but not as memorials
Mixture of Church and State Gov.
Great Importance on Family
Father controls everything
Travel with family
Can take away kids

11. Would you rather be a Pilgrim or a Puritan?
Puritans
Average Life Span 70 years
Average children per family – 6
Average Age for males to marry – 27
Females – 22

12. New Colonies grow from MA Bay
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker led a group to Conn in mid- 1630’s
1639 wrote a new plan for government
New Hampshire
Separate Colony in 1679

13. Dissent Among the Puritans
Dissenters left the Massachusetts Bay Colony and settled new towns.
Thomas Hooker, a Puritan minister, and his congregation settled in the Connecticut River Valley.
They adopted America’s first written constitution: the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
It extended voting rights to all free men, not just church members.

14. Roger Williams – Rhode Island
Williams was a popular minister
“Forced Religion stinks in the nostrils of God”
You had to purchase land from Native Americans
Royal Charter = “National Sin”
1635 – Found guilty of “New and Dangerous Opinions” and exiled
RI was about religious freedom and separation of Church and State
RI is seen a “Sewer”
Do you Agree with Williams or the Puritans? Explain.

15. Ann Hutchinson Things wrong with her She was a women – cant an opinion
You didn’t need minister or the bible to interrupt God
Held meetings a her house where people would speak against Winthrop
Arrested and defended herself successfully

16. Economies MA Bay New Hampshire Conn. Rhode Island
Fishing, Lumber, Shipbuilding, Triangular Trade, Rum, Whaling
New Hampshire
Trade, Fishing
Conn.
Triangular Trade
Rhode Island
Shipping, Livestock, Agriculture

17. Education and Government in New England
Massachusetts General Court passed education laws.
Girls learned reading, writing, and some arithmetic.
Boys had more education opportunities. By the 1700s Harvard and Yale colleges were available to them.
By late 1700s most colonies were royal colonies.
In town meetings church members and land owners voted on town matters.