1. English Colonies: North and Mid-Atlantic
Unit 1: Pre-colonial and Colonial America to 1750

2. Puritanism Born of the Protestant Reformation
Calvinism and predestination
Signs of conversion
Seekers of purification of English Christianity
Separatists disagreed about who should be admitted to the Church of England
Mayflower carried Separatists from Holland, bound for Jamestown

3. Objectives Examine the English colonies of the North and Mid-Atlantic
Explore Puritanism
Compare and contrast the English colonial experience

4. Mayflower Compact Pilgrims landed at Plymouth
Agreement to form a government and to submit to the will of the majority
Eventually, adult males met in town meeting to make their own laws
Other settlements along Massachusetts Bay – cod and god

5. Massachusetts Bay Colony
1629 non Separatist Puritans received royal charter to form Massachusetts Bay Colony with Boston as its hub
Largest settlement
Common purpose
Fairly prosperous settlers

6. Great English Migration

7. Life in the Bay colony
All freemen could vote (all male members of the Congregational Church)
Local (town) governments were more inclusive
Yet, not a democracy. Designed to enforce god’s laws
Religious leaders determined who was admitted to the Church
Clergy could not hold political office
Protestant ethic

8. Dissention in the Bay Colony
Quakers disagreed with power of the Puritan clergy
Anne Hutchison and antinomianism
Roger Williams, minister from Salem
Extreme separatist, challenged colony’s charter, and denied authority of the civil government to regulate religious behavior

9. Rhode Island
Roger Williams fled to Rhode Island and established the first Baptist church
Complete freedom of religion
Exercised simple manhood suffrage
Other settlements on Rhode Island housed outcasts, exiles and malcontents

10. Colonial New England Settlements developed throughout New England
Fundamental Orders of a Connecticut River colony was a modern constitution

11. Interaction with the Natives
Natives had been decimated by disease and were weak
At first, friendship and cultural exchange
Colonial growth led to conflict
Pequot War
Attempts at conversion
Intertribal unity
King Phillip’s War

12. Colonial Unity 1643 – Formation of the New England Confederation
Defense against Natives, French and the Dutch
Manage inter-colonial problems
Puritan
England largely ignored colonies during its Civil War
Charles II reasserted control

13. Dominion of New England
1684 – Bay Colony had its charter revoked
1686 – Dominion of New England created by royal authority
Navigation Laws
Dominion fell apart following the Glorious (Bloodless) Revolution in England
Saluatory neglect – weak enforcement of the Navigation Laws

14. Middle Colonies New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania
Fertile soil, reliance on rivers
Lumber, ship building
Middle ground between the South and New England
Ethnic diversity, religious tolerance, democratic control