1. “…whereas you are become a body politic, using amongst yourselves civil government, and are not furnished with any persons of special eminency above the rest, to be chosen by you into office of government; let your wisdom and godliness appear, not only in choosing such persons as do entirely love and will promote the common good, but also in yielding unto them all due honor and obedience in their lawful administrations…”
-John Robinson, August 5, 1620

2. subset of Protestantism Anglican / C of E “still too Catholic”
Puritans
subset of Protestantism
Anglican / C of E “still too Catholic”
valued thrift, diligence, morality
John Calvin / “Calvinism”
salvation depends on the will of God
moral lives, devout prayer, Bible study
Persecution
King Charles I, 1620s
destroyed books, banished ministers
sought refuge in America
Why do you think the English monarchs were worried about the Puritans?

3. 1620, Pilgrims, Mayflower, Plymouth Mayflower Compact – self-govt
Emigration
1620, Pilgrims, Mayflower, Plymouth
Mayflower Compact – self-govt
1630, John Winthrop, city upon a hill
Massachusetts Bay Colony
**elected governor**
New England
NH, ME – met Anglicans
RI – radical Puritans, toleration
CT – conservative Puritans
Toleration?
NO! Baptists, Quakers, etc. not welcome
Roger Williams – don’t take land from Indians
Anne Hutchinson – woman preacher
1692 Salem Witch Trials
Why did Roger Williams advocate a separation of church and state?

4. Making “New England”
cleared land, fenced-in fields
cattle, sheep, horses, pigs
killed wild animals
“lazy Indians couldn’t control nature”
Pequot War
1630s fur trade – accusation against Pequots
English, Narragansett, Mohegans attack
“too furious, slays too many men”
Pequots wiped out

5. Praying Towns
post-Pequot war
closely supervised by missionaries
Indians “out of the way”
forced to become “English”
King Philip’s War
1675, thought Metacom led a rebellion
in fact, they were ALL angry
Indians devastated towns
1676, Indians starving, no ammo
lost most of their lands, fled north
contributed to French vs. English conflicts