NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

Chapter 3, Section 2

Chapter 3 The English Colonies

Section 1 – Early English Settlements

Section 2 – New England Colonies

Section 3 – Middle Colonies

Section 4 – Southern Colonies

Chapter Review

Chapter 3 Test

3-2 Workbook

3. Describe how Connecticut & Rhode Island were

formed because the Puritan’s lack of toleration?

Main Idea

After Pilgrims build the small Plymouth colony, four New England colonies develop in the 1600’s led by tens of thousands of Puritans..

Religious Freedom

In England, religious dissenters were persecuted.

Separatists wanted no part of England’s protestant church – they wanted to start their own church.

Puritans wanted to reform, or improve, England’s church.

Both groups were unhappy, so they came to America to practice religion freely.

Pilgrims at Plymouth

Pilgrims and “strangers” traveled on The Mayflower and reached America (MA) in 1620. They called their small colony Plymouth.

The Mayflower Compact set agreed upon rules and laws for Plymouth.

With the help of Pawtuxet and Wampanoag Indians, the Pilgrims learned to grow corn, beans and pumpkins and where to hunt and fish.

Puritans & the Massachusetts Bay Colony

In 1629, about 900 Puritans received a charter to start the Massachusetts Bay Colony, just north of the Pilgrims. They founded Boston.

During the 1630’s, more than 15,000 Puritans left England for Massachusetts for religious freedom and better lives. This movement of people is known as the Great Migration.

Puritan Intolerance

Hard-working Puritans made Massachusetts a successful colony, but some people were not happy.

The Puritans had no toleration for people who believed differently from them.

Dissenters who left Massachusetts founded the colonies of Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.

Conflict with Native Americans

The Wampanoag and the Narraganset were the largest Native groups in New England.

At first, colonists and Indians traded peacefully. But as colonists moved further onto native territory, fighting erupted.

In the end, Native Americans continued to steadily lose territory as the New England colonies expanded.

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

Squanto & Samoset

helped them grow

crops and get along

with the Wampanoag

Indians.

PILGRIMS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

They started the

colony of Plymouth

in 1620.

PILGRIMS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

They sailed to

America on the

Mayflower with The

Strangers.

PILGRIMS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

The Massachusetts

Bay Company

received a charter in

1629 to build a

colony north of

Plymouth.

PURITANS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

They were known as

Separatists in

England, and they

called themselves

Saints.

PILGRIMS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

They founded the

city of Boston in

1630.

PURITANS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

They intended to

settle in Virginia,

but instead reached

land at Cape Cod

(Massachusetts) in

1620.

PILGRIMS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

During the 1630’s,

thousands more

came to

Massachusetts as

part of the Great

Migration.

PURITANS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

They signed the

Mayflower Compact

for “the general

good of the colony”.

PILGRIMS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

Their lack of

toleration for

dissenters led to

new colonies — CT,

RI, NH.

PURITANS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

They left England

for religious freedom

in the Netherlands

(Holland), but were

unhappy there as well.

PILGRIMS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

Their harvest

celebration in 1621

is recognized as the

first Thanksgiving.

PILGRIMS

Pilgrims, Puritans or Both?

They were treated

unfairly in England

because of their

religious beliefs.

BOTH