Massachusetts founded by people escaping religious persecution
1st group – Pilgrims
2nd group – Puritans
Fights with AI often
Economy:
1. Fish
2. Shipbuilding
3. Rum
4. Trading
Massachusetts
Pilgrims
Plymouth Colony-1620 Pilgrims=Separatists Religious freedom Mayflower Compact –
document about self-govt William Bradford Thanksgiving
Puritans
Massachusetts Bay Colony-1628
John Winthrop
“city upon a hill” – Boston
Theocracy – government dominated by religion
Harvard – 1636 – 1st college in North America
Other New England Colonies
Rhode Island – Roger Williams – religious toleration
Connecticut – Thomas Hooker – expansion
New Hampshire - Puritans
Dissenters in Mass. Bay Col
Roger Williams – believed in separation of church and stateKicked out; founded Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson- preached at secret meetingsBible is all one needsBanished to Rhode Island
New York and New Jersey1664 – captured from Dutch
Purpose: connect southern and New England colonies
NY – Named after Duke of YorkNY = New Netherlands; NYC = New Amsterdam
NJ – Sir George Carteret & Lord BerkeleySplit into East & West JerseyElizabeth
Pennsylvania and Delaware
Founder – William Penn
1680 – Philadelphia( largest city in colonies)
Purpose: safe haven for Quakers (pg. 57)“Holy Experiment” – tolerated all religions
Most prosperous colonyTrading and farming
Delaware…. Who cares – it’s Del-a-where?!
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