1. New England Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island
Founding the 13 Colonies
New England
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island

2. What’s in a Name?
Why did the Colonists name the first colonies as they did?
Do you sense any irony?
IRONY: The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

3. Founders Puritans Pilgrims Want to _______ the Church of England
AKA ____________________
Flee the Church of England
Why?

4. Mission/Purpose
Religious
Purpose of Jamestown?

5. Massachusetts Colony
Use Textbook page 77 to find the Massachusetts colony and shade it on your map
All of the New England Colonies should be one color

7. Mayflower Compact-1620
Signed aboard the ____________ on the way to America
Very strict, religiously based code of laws

8. Mayflower Compact
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."

9. Three Cities Founded Plymouth-1620 Salem-1626 Boston-1630
Label on map (pg 77)
Ring any bells?
Boston-1630
Label on Map

10. 1st Thanksgiving William Bradford 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay
Signs an alliance with the Wampanoag Tribe
Pilgrims would not have survived the New England winters without this support
Squanto

12. Puritans in Mass. 1630- “Great Migration”
15,00o Puritans flee England
John Winthrop-Leader of Puritans
Becomes Governor of Massachusetts
Writes that New England shall become a “City Upon a Hill”
Make flash card

13. Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck and to provide for our posterity is to follow the Counsel of Micah, to do Justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God:
for this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly Affection, we must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, we must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality, we must delight in each other, make others Conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labour, and suffer together, always having before our eyes our Commission and Community in the work, our Community as members of the same body, so shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as his own people and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways…:
City upon a hill excerpt
What kind of document is this? –sermon
What is a utopia?
How did Winthrop picture life in America?

14. Harvard College
In 1636, Harvard College was instituted for the purpose of training Puritan ministers.

15. Connecticut Colony Add to map- shade in Label New Haven
What’s in a name?
Much more fertile soil
Better crops

16. Founder: Thomas Hooker
Sick of Winthrop and intolerance
Leads group to Hartford
Forms new colony-as grows is given a charter
Make flash card!

17. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
1st Constitution in America
What’s a constitution?

18. Rhode Island
Colonial Jail
Find and Shade
Label Providence

19. Founder: Rodger Williams
Kicked out of Mass
Wanted Religious Freedom
Did not like how they were treating the Native People

20. Founder: Anne Hutchinson
Kicked out of Mass
Want more equality for women
Did not believe in Predestination