1. Puritans – church members who want to “purify” the Church of England
The Puritans
Puritans – church members who want to “purify” the Church of England

2. Creating a “New England”
Puritans leave England in order to form a model society in the new world
John Winthrop becomes the group’s first governor

3. Separatists want to leave the church completely and flee persecution
Pilgrims first flee to Holland then to America
Plymouth Colony – 2nd permanent English colony
Came over as families – not typical

4. Massachusetts Bay Colony – led by John Winthrop – names Boston as its capital
Included puritans and non-puritans
Had to include many towns b/c so many people coming over
Plymouth eventually became part of the colony
Right to vote belongs to any man in the Puritan church, not just land owners
Vote members onto the General Court, who then chooses the governor
Close relationship between church and the government

5. Map of Colony

6. Dissent in the Crowd Roger Williams – extreme Separatist
No rightful claim to the land unless bought from the Natives
Government had no right to punish people for their religious beliefs
Fled Mass. after arrest order
Set up the colony Providence (capital of RI)
separation of church, state, and religious freedom

7. Anne Hutchinson
People need neither the church or ministers to interpret the Bible
Banished from Mass. Bay Colony in 1638
Moved to New Netherland (New York)

8. An End to a Way of Life Land Treaties
Natives see it as sharing the land
Europeans see it as owning the land
Disputes arise between groups

9. Pequot War Connecticut 1637, Pequots take a stand
Colonists form an alliance w/ Peqouts enemy, the Narragansett
Colonists surround Pequot fort and massacre almost everyone in the fort

10. King Philip’s War
B/C Natives no longer had land, they worked for the English
Had to obey Puritan laws that went against their own laws
Wampanoag chief Metacom (Eng. Called him King Philip)
Organized his tribe and others to fight the English, 1675
Hit & run tactics
Natives gradually surrender b/c food shortages, disease & heavy causalities
Metacom is one of the casualties & Colonists exhibit his head for 20 years