1. New England Colonies: Ch. 3 Lesson 2
Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Connecticut

2. Essential Question & Learning Goal
EQ: How do new ideas change the way people live?
LG: Students will be able to analyze and sequence information about early Colonial America, demonstrate connections between events, identify points of view of colonial leaders and explain their impact, and analyze the contributions of key groups to colonial society.
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3. Seeking Religious Freedom
1) Puritans (Protestants that didn’t like the Anglican Church)
2) Separatists (Puritans that wanted to leave and set up their own church)
3) Pilgrims (Separatists that came to America on a religious journey)
Landed in Massachusetts at a place called Plymouth.
Left Europe so they could create a place of religious tolerance

4. Mayflower Compact
William Bradford leader of the Pilgrims that helped write the document
A formal document that:
Pledged loyalty to England and would do things for the good of the colony

5. Native Americans Helped Pilgrims after the first winter
Most Pilgrims died of disease and malnutrition

6. Native Americans
Squanto & Samoset taught pilgrims to farm and where to hunt and fish, and make peace with other Natives.
With these skills, Pilgrims were able to survive in Massachusetts.

7. Massachusetts Bay Colony
Great Migration: Puritans left England because they disagreed with the church and were being persecuted by King Charles I.
Formed the Massachusetts Bay Company on a royal charter and formed a new colony.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop was the colony’s governor
1630 led 900 men, women, and children to Massachusetts Bay

8. Connecticut
People weren’t happy with Massachusetts and Puritan leaders
Moved to Connecticut (good land and more religious freedom)
Wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
first written constitution in America
described the representative government in detail

9. Rhode Island and New Hampshire
Roger Williams
Forced out of Massachusetts because he wanted religious freedom
Said it was wrong to take land from Natives
Anne Hutchinson
Questioned the authority of religious leaders in Massachusetts, found guilty of false ideas and had to leave and went to Rhode Island
Rhode Island was the first place in the colonies where people could practice any religion freely
New Hampshire became independent of Massachusetts in 1679

10. Conflicts with Native Americans
Indians were willing to sell land and courts frequently ruled in favor of Natives.
1675 War against the Wampanoag people
War began after 3 Wampanoag people were executed for murdering colonists.
King Phillips War
Wampanoag people were defeated
War destroyed the power of the Native Americans in New England

12. Salem Witch Trials 1689: FEAR Jan 1692: two girls start acting strange
The trials
Legacy
Swimming test
Prayer test
Touch test
Witch Cakes
Witch Marks
Picking and Scratching
Incantations (charching)
video

13. Twitter Wall Tweet as one of the following types of colonists:
Pilgrim on the Mayflower
A colonists in Salem during the Witch Trials
As Roger Williams or Anne Hutchinson

14. Exit Card
List and Describe the two steps that were taken towards a Representative/Democratic government that we have discussed in class and is in our notes.