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