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New England Colonies(1607—1775)

Geography

BostonPortsmouthShort growing seasonMountainousRugged landscapeLivestockBoston was a major cityAtlantic Ocean made the

trade easier

Political Structure

Puritans created their own government Town meetings where they passed laws, talked about

their ideas and concerns etc. Elected officials

Social classes where Puritans ledNot forced to go to ChurchWeren’t forced to go by the Church’s laws

like in EnglandBad relationship with England

Founding

Puritans Left for the New World (purification, soil and to

practice Puritanism freely) Wanted to purify the Church of England Was threatened by the Church of England (burn their

books, kill them etc.) Separates

Wanted to separate from the Church of England (Anglican Church) and start their own churches

Economy

Resources Exported: sugar, fish, trees and beaver furs

Farming: subsidenceShort growing season5% city livingMerchants prospered

Trade

Society

Women Little rights

Structure Clergy Merchants Artisans

Majority male and adultsPuritansEnglish majoritySlaves: forced immigration

Religion

Puritans Began separate churches Followed John Calvin beliefs

Pilgrims Mayflower Compact

John Withrop Puritan leader Massachusetts Bay Colony

Pequot War Treaty of Hartford the Pequot Nation

Roger Williams

Puritan minister who believed that government should be separate from religion

Banished from New England for his beliefs

Founded Rhode Island (1636)

Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644)

First, the proper means whereby the civil power may and should attain its end are only political, and principally these five.     

Secondly, the means whereby the church may and should attain her ends are only ecclesiastical, which are chiefly five.

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