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2.3 Puritan New England

2.3 Puritan New England. Objective: Learn the motivations for Puritan migration. Describe the Puritans interactions with the Native Americans. Understand the characteristics of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. HW: Read 2.4. Puritans create New England.

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2.3 Puritan New England

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  1. 2.3 Puritan New England Objective: Learn the motivations for Puritan migration. Describe the Puritans interactions with the Native Americans. Understand the characteristics of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. HW: Read 2.4

  2. Puritans create New England http://www.winthropsociety.org/portraits.php • Puritans want to purify Church of England of Catholicism • Puritan Separatists exiled by King James I; they go to Holland • 1620, Pilgrims (Puritan Separatists) leave Holland & found Plymouth Bay Colony • In northern colonies, religion, not profit, drives colonization • Mayflower Compact- early example moderate self govt. • Hypocrites? Wanted to follow their own religion and were intolerant of other beliefs (Williams & Hutchinson)

  3. Massachusetts Bay Colony http://www.winthropsociety.org/portraits.php • 1630, as a “city on a hill” for Puritans • Led by John Winthrop, Governor • Independent government for the colony • 2/3 of males (churched only) enfranchised • Very large and well-stocked expedition • Very successful, encouraged the “Great Migration” • 20,000 migrated--1630 and 1640

  4. “City upon a hill” • Protestant work ethic  God rewards his elect • System of winners and losers, see Winthrop p. 54 • All “freemen” could vote – very democratic at the time • Church and state were closely linked • Taxes supported the church • Laws punished both criminal and undesirable act such as idleness and drunkenness  “Blue Laws” • Little concept of privacy – Church and State could punish parents for poor parenting, marital problems, etc.

  5. Dissent in the Puritan Community http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=84 • Anne Hutchinson, exiled in 1638. In 1643 she and her family were killed in a war fought between the Dutch colonists and N. Americans She is seen as the beginning of the American tradition of Freedom of Conscience. • Roger Williams, fled MBC in 1636. Befriended by Native Am and settled in Narragansett Bay. Founded Rhode Island – community based on religious tolerance. http://www.rogerwilliams.org/biography.htm

  6. Conflict with Native Americans • Original co-existence w/ Native Americans  Tension • Expansion of colony leads to conflict with Pequot Nation SEE PAGE 56 • 1637 Punitive conflict begins, Pequots are exterminated. • Metacom, aka King Philip, resists expansion • King Philip’s War, 1675 • Wampanoag tribe is destroyed, Metacom killed • Was the last Native American resistance in Puritan colonies • Conflict is denounced by Roger Williams

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