1. Puritan New England
Chapter 2 Section 3

2. Puritans Create a “New England”
1628- Anne Dudley- 16 yrs old
Marries Simon Bradstreet
Leaves England with family
Becomes America’s first English speaking poet
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Aboard Arbella to Jamestown
Colony is still struggling
Wanted to create “model society”
John Winthrop- 1st governor

3. Puritans and Pilgrims Puritanism – broke from Roman Catholic – 1530s
King Henry VIII broke away, daughter Elizabeth I formed Anglican Church
Puritan- bc wanted to purify Anglican church by eliminating all traces of Roman Catholicism
Ministers are source of religious and moral instruction
Objected authority of bishops
Some want to stay in Anglican church, some leave and form separate ministries
Separatists- (Pilgrims)- flee to escape persecution
1620 – small group of families found Plymouth Colony

4. Massachusetts Bay Company
1620s – other English Puritans did not like Anglican reform & turned toward New England
Felt burden of increasing religious persecution, political repression & dismal economic conditions
1629 – Winthrop receives royal charter for joint- stock enterprise
Massachusetts Bay Company

5. September 1630: Massachusetts Bay Colony was born
Boston is capital
Lots of people migrating
Small towns around Boston to accommodate more settlers
Within one year of the colony’s settlement it had:
- 17 Ships
Puritan & Non-Puritan English men, women,
& children settlers
- Eventually, the Plymouth Colony was incorporated into the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

6. “City Upon a Hill”
“We must knit together in this work; We must uphold (each other). . . In all meekness, gentleness, patience, and liberality (generosity). We must delight in each other, make other’s conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together So shall we keep the unity of the spirit, in the bond of peace Ten of us will be able to resist a thousand of our enemies. For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are on us.”
(John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity)

7. No effort for democracy
Political power spread more broadly than in England
All adult males who belonged to Puritan church can vote
40% of colony’s men
Voted annually for members of General Court who chose Governor

8. Church and State Felt had a duty from God to carry out
Drunkenness, swearing, theft, idleness
Importance of Family
Puritans migrated with family
Community very involved in family life
Husband and wife fight? Court intervenes for counseling
Kids too crazy? Placed in more “God-fearing” home

9. The Founding of Providence
“Forced religion stinks in the nostrils of God”
Roger Williams- extreme separatist
English settlers have no right to land unless paid natives for it
Called Royal Charter a sin and wants it revised to help natives
Gov’t has no right punishing people for religious beliefs

10. General Court orders him arrested and returned to England
1636 – fled Mass. Southward
Negotiated with Narragansett tribe for land
Sets up Providence
Separation of Church and State, & religious freedom

11. Anne Hutchinson Banished
Had Bible readings in her home
Didn’t need church or ministers to interpret Bible
Banish her in 1638
Moves to New Netherland (New York)
Religious toleration
1643- dies in war between natives

12. Native Americans Resist Colonial Expansion
Disputes over land
Native Americans felt nobody owned land; anyone who needed to use it, used it
Natives saw treaties as an exchange of gifts for land for certain amount of time
Europeans saw it as one time deal

13. The Pequot War
Connecticut 1637 – Pequot Nation takes stand against colonists
Colonists have alliance with Narragansett (Pequot enemies)
90 English colonists and 100’s of allies surround Pequot fort at Mystic River
Set fort on fire, shoot men, women AND children
Narragansett begged them to stop
Colonists killed almost all of the Pequot

14. King Philip’s War Natives had to follow Puritan laws
No hunting or fishing on Sunday
Wampanoag Chief Metacom (King Philip)
Organize his tribe & others into alliance
Native Americans attacked and burned towns
Both sides attacked brutally
Disease, hunger, and deaths stopped Natives and they fled
Metacom shot and killed
Head displayed for 20 years at Plymouth
10% of colonial men of voting age are killed
Higher percentage than the American Revolution or Civil War