+The Settling

of the Northern Colonies

1619-1700

+

The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism

•Martin Luther•Puritan Consciousness•Henry VIII•Puritans•King James I 1603 and 1625

+The Pilgrims end their Pilgrimage at Plymouth

Pilgrims Plymouth Rock was

not the first landing Mayflower Compact Winter of 1620-21 1621 Autumn Leaders Small Plymouth was

never economically or numerically important

+The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth

Separatist Puritans were extremists moderate puritans sought to reform the church from within

1629 Non-Separatists Puritans secured royal charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Company

Blessed enterprise:1630 John Winthrop Shared Sense of Purpose

+Building the Bay Colony•City Upon a Hill shapes Colony•Government•“Protestant Ethic”

+Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth

•Dissension•Anne Hutchinson•Roger Williams

+The Rhode Island “Sewer”

•Roger Williams fled to Rd. Is. In 1636•Other settlements soon dotted Rd. Is.•Distinctions

+New England Spreads Out

•Connecticut River•New Haven 1638•Maine •New Hampshire

+

Puritans Vs. Indians

+•New England Indians Already weak by 1620•More Settlers = More Confrontations•Intertribal Unity

+Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence

New England Confederation Exclusively Puritan Club 1st steps towards colonial unity Crown paid little attention to Colonies in the

Early years

+

Andros Promotes the 1st American Revolution

•Dominion of New England 1686•Sir Edmund Andros•Glorious (bloodless) Revolution 1688-89

+

Old Netherlands at New Netherlands

•16c. Netherlands revolted against rule of Catholic Spain and gained independence with help of Protestant England•17c. Golden Age of Dutch history•Henry Hudson•Dutch West India Company•New Netherland

+Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors

Dutch Company Colony vexed from beginning

N.E. hostile to growth of its neighbor

Swedes

+Dutch Residues in New York

New Netherlands only a secondary Interest to Dutch

English regarded Dutch as intruders

Dutch illiberal features remained

+Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvanian

Arose in Mid 1600’s in England

Deeply convicted William Penn Pennsylvania

+

Quaker Pennsylvania and its Neighbors •Launched colony in 1681•Penn purchased land from chief Tammany •Government•Society•Small Quaker settlements flourished next to Pennsylvania

+The Middle way in the Middle Colonies

•Middle ColoniesNY, NJ, Delaware and Penn.

•Distinctions•1720 Colonies