Post on 10-Feb-2018
European Settlements
-European Settlements -
as European nations began
to settle the New World
they settled in certain
areas
-Spanish-Central and South
America, Florida, Texas
St. Augustine, Florida
1565
-French– Canada,
Mississippi R.
-Dutch—New York
-English—East Coast
First English Colony
-Roanoke, NC
Sir Walter Raleigh
Lost Colony
John White
Virginia Dare – first
European born in the new
world
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Hampshire
• New England Colonies had rocky soil
NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
Industrial North
-diversified economy
-harsher weather conditions
-food exports
-lumber industry
-ship building
-iron making
Colonial Education
-rate of education higher in colonies than in England
-religious purposes
-establishment of universities
Harvard, Colombia, Princeton, Yale
Massachusetts
Strict religious beliefs caused people to be thrown out of the Massachusetts colony because they would not conform to the colonies views(ex. Williams, Hutchinson, Dyer)
Harvard is established in 1636
Rhode Island
-founded by Roger Williams
-land peaceably acquired from Indians
-based on religious freedoms that Williams promoted
-church and the government are separate
Rhode Island Charter founded on religious freedom
Connecticut
-founded by Thomas Hooker
-wanted more religious freedom than Massachusetts allowed
-disliked the requirement of citizens to be church members
-Fundamental Orders
first constitution in the nation
New Hampshire
founded by Puritan
communities with the
assistance of Anne
Hutchinson
N.H. becomes royal
colony
Religious Reasons
-Henry VIII begins the Anglican Church
-Reformers want to rid the church of all Roman Catholic traditions
-Puritans
wanted to purify the Church of England
individual and congregational control of religion
Pilgrims
-Pilgrims also called Separatists because they wanted to practice their own religion
-Plymouth Mass. 1620
Pilgrims
-Mayflower Compact
set up direct democracy for the colony
Pilgrims
-colony struggled but received Indian help to grow crops
Thanksgiving
Squanto
-William Bradford
Pilgrim leader
“Of Plymouth Plantation”
Philosophy
-John Locke
-Natural Rights
life, liberty, property
-Social Contract---an agreement between a people and their gov’t to protect their rights
-Baron Montesquieu
separation of powers in government
Massachusetts Bay Company
-Puritans
-John Winthrop
-City on a Hill
be an example to the world
-connection between church and state
-strict adherence to Puritan rules
Puritan Dissent
-Anne Hutchinson
belief in individual worship
banished in famous trial
fled to NH
Indian Resistance
-some cooperation but short lived
-disease, land, and religion caused disputes
-Pequot War, 1637
massacre of Indians
-King Philip’s War
lots of deaths on both sides but colonists win and Indian resistance fades
Northern Slavery
-not as much slavery
-crops required less labor
-many house or dock workers
-slaves had more rights than southern slaves but were still not equal with free citizens
-as immigrants provided cheap labor, many slaves were emancipated or slavery abolished in northern areas