NEW ENGLAND

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NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

MASSACHUSETTS NEW HAMPSHIRE CONNECTICUT RHODE ISLAND

The next group of British to arrive in the New World

Came for religious freedom Came to escape persecution Wanted to separate themselves

from the Church of England Landed at Plymouth Rock

PLYMOUTH ROCK

PILGRIMS

LANDED AT PLYMOUTH ROCK SIGNED THE MAYFLOWER

COMPACT BEFORE THEY GOT OFF THE BOAT.

AGREEMENT FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT--TO LIVE IN A COVENANT COMMUNITY- BY GOD’S LAWS.

The Mayflower Compact

November 11, 1620

The Mayflower Compact

November 11, 1620

The Mayflower Compact

November 11, 1620

The Mayflower Compact

November 11, 1620Written and signed before the Pilgrims disembarked from the ship.

Not a constitution, but an agreement to form a crude govt. and submit to majority rule.

Signed by 41 adult males.

Led to adult male settlers meeting in assemblies to make laws in town meetings.

10 YEARS LATER

A SECOND GROUP ARRIVED: FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TO PURIFY THE CHURCH OF

ENGLAND SETTLED IN MASSACHUSETTS

PURITANS

Separatists

Separatists

vs. vs.

PuritansPuritans

PURITAN SOCIETY

EVERYTHING REVOLVED AROUND RELIGION AND THE CHURCH

STRICT LAWS TOWN MEETINGS ONLY CHURCH MEMBERS COULD

VOTE THE CURCH WAS CALLED THE

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY

THE MOST POWERFUL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY WERE CHURCH MEMBERS

ENTIRE FAMILIES CAME TO THE NEW WORLD

STABLE SOCIETY

NOT A PURITAN? GET OUT!

EVEN THOUGH THE PURITANS CAME TO THE NEW WORLD FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM---THEY DID NOT WANT OTHERS TO HAVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM!

PURITANS HAD NO TOLERATION FOR OTHER RELIGIONS!

DISSENTERS

NOT EVERYONE THOUGHT THAT THE PURITANS WERE RIGHT.

PEOPLE WHO DISAGREED WITH THEM WERE CALLED DISSENTERS.

ONE DISSENTER WAS ROGER WILLIAMS. THE PURITANS DID NOT LIKE WILLIAMS.

ROGER WILLIAMS

WILLIAMS CAUSED SO MUCH CONTROVERSY THAT THE PURITANS WANTED HIM GONE!

HE ESCAPED MASSACHUSETTS AND WENT TO LIVE WITH THE INDIANS- HE STARTED HIS OWN COLONY….RHODE ISLAND.

DISSENTERROGER WILLIAMSFOUNDER OFRHODE ISLAND

ECONOMY

BECAUSE OF THE LONG WINTERS AND ROCKY SOIL, PLANTATION AGRICULTURE WAS NOT POSSIBLE IN NEW ENGLAND COLONIES.

SO NO PLANTATIONS----THEREFORE THEY DID NOT NEED SLAVES!

TO MAKE MONEY

THE PEOPLE OF NEW ENGLAND USED WHAT THEY HAD…

THEY USED THE TREES TO BUILD HOUSES, AND SHIPS.

THEY USED THE SHIPS TO

SMALL FARMS (SUBSISTENCE) SHIPBUILDING FISHING AND CARRYING STUFF ON SHIPS

FOR OTHER PEOPLE- THAT’S HOW NEW ENGLAND

COLONISTS MADE A LIVING!