Jamestown Settlement Pilgrims Founded in 1620 Landed in

Jamestown Settlement

Pilgrims § Founded in 1620 § Landed in Plymouth Colony aboard Mayflower § Signed Mayflower Compact § Came because they wanted to separate from Church of England. Also called Separatists

Pilgrims Leader William Bradford

Massachusetts Bay Colony § Founded by Puritans in 1630 § Came because they wanted to reform the Church of England. § They wanted to what they called “A City Upon a Hill. ”

John Winthrop was chosen as First Governor and elected 12 times

Puritans • Religious group who hoped to reform or change the Church of England • The king disapproved of Puritans and their ideas. • Persecuted them-canceled Puritan business charters, and had some Puritans jailed. • Puritans believed that England had fallen on “evil and declining times. ” • They wanted to build a new society based on biblical laws and teachings.

Puritans § Only male church members could vote – elected representatives to assembly called the General Court § If you questioned how colony was being run, you could be banished

Connecticut § Founded in 1636 § Thomas Hooker led 100 settlers to Hartford § He believed governor had too much power § He wanted strict limits on government § Wrote plan of government called Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Fundamental Orders of CT • Gave vote to all men who were property owners and Puritans • Limits the government’s power • Expands the idea of representative government

Rhode Island Roger Williams

RHODE ISLAND § Founded in 1636 § Narragansett Indians sold land to Puritan Minister Roger Williams after he was banished from Massachusetts.

Roger Williams • believed that Puritan Church had too much power, • All white men had right to vote • church and state should be completely separate • believed in religious tolerance

Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson § Puritan woman who had discussion meetings after Minister’s sermons, questioning church’s teachings § She told the court that God spoke directly to her. § Banished § Ended up going to Rhode Island.

New Hampshire § Founded in 1680 § Settlers from MA spread out across New England § Trading and fishing villages founded

LIFE IN N. E. COLONIES • Tightly knit towns and villages dealt with local matters as community • Center of village was a common, an open field where cattle graze, and a meetinghouse • Town meetings were held in the meetinghouse as well as school. Settlers discussed and voted on many issues.

Economy and Geography • Rocky soil…poor farming…short growing season…long cold winters, mild summers. • American Indians taught colonists how to grow corn, pumpkins, squash, and beans • Settlers hunted wild turkey and deer • Settlers cut down trees and used them for shipbuilding • Settlers fished for cod, halibut, and whales

RELATIONS WITH AMERICAN INDIANS Metacom, also known as King Phillip was Chief of Wampanoag tribe

• As settlers expanded outward, relationship with American Indians worsened • There were many fights against settlers: known as King Philip’s War • After a year of fighting Metacom was killed. The English sold his family and 1, 000 Native Americans into slavery in West Indies • “I am resolved not to see the day when I have no country. ”