1. New England
Pilgrims and Puritans

2. English Settlements Chesapeake Colonies New England Colonies
Heat fostered disease
Drinking water contributed to disease
Male life expectancy – 40s
Female life expectancy – late-30s
Family life unstable
Harsh winters killed deadly germs
Safer water & brewed beer
Male life expectancy – 70s
Female life expectancy – near 70s
Stable families

3. New England - Pilgrims Religious motivations Plymouth, 1620
Mayflower Compact
Reliance on help from the Native population

4. New England - Puritans Massachusetts Bay Co.
Critical of Protestant Reformation
John Winthrop
Beacon of light
“We must consider that we shall be as a City Upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.”
- John Winthrop

5. New England - Puritans Origins in Calvanism Belief in predestination
Pride in hard work
Conversion experience
Personal relationship with God
Division of life into strict categories

6. New England - Puritans Criticized royal & religious hierarchies
Believed in patriarchal society
Coverture
Male dominated land ownership
Men representative of family
Women nurtured children
Women tended to duties of the home
Significance of the Puritans?

7. New England - Puritans Puritans & Capitalism Individualism
Religious divisions
Questioning of Omnipotence
Questioning of Self-deprivation
The Half-Way covenant, 1662
Salem Witch Trials

8. New England - Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Banished in 1636
Established Providence
Land dealings with the Narragansett
People should not be “punished for any differences of opinion in matters of religion.”

9. New England - Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson
Tried & Banished in 1638
Established Portsmouth
“a woman not fit for our society”
John Wheelwright established the colony of New Hampshire

10. New England - Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
Established Hartford, 1636
New Haven established in 1636
Pequot War
Royal charter of Connecticut, 1662
Pequot Fort

11. “Those that scaped the fire were slaine with the sword; some hewed to peeces, other rune throw with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dipatchte, and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying they fyer, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stinck and sente there of; but the victory seemed a sweete sacrifice, and they (English settlers) gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to inclose their enemies in their hands, and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enimie.”
- William Bedford
Puritan leader

12. New England – King Philip's War, 1675
Led by a Wampanoag named Metacomet
“The losse to the English in the severall colonies, in their habitations and stock, is reckoned to amount to 150,000 l. There having been about 1200 houses burned, 8000 head of cattle, great and small, killed, and many thousand bushels of wheat, pease, and other grain burned and upward of 3000 Indian men, women, and children destroyed…”
- Edward Randolph
English Official

13. New England Key Terms: Pilgrims, Mayflower Compact, Metacomet,
John Winthrop, Puritans, Predestination, Salem Witch Trials
Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Pequot War, King Phillip’s War