Chapter 3 Colonial America Section 2New England Colonies

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Chapter 3 Colonial America Section 2New England Colonies

New Settlers in America

•  Jamestown settlers came looking for ______and trade

•  The next group of colonists arrived in search of ______freedom

•  England was a ______country since 1534 (King Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church)

•  Formed the ______Church

•  Not everyone was ______

•  Many people ______, disagreed with the beliefs or practices of the Anglicans

•  English Catholics still considered the ______the head of the church

•  Catholics were often ______, or treated harshly, for that reason

Protestants Seek Change

•  Some protestants wanted to change, or ______, the Anglican Church

•  Others wanted to ______away from it altogether

•  The Protestants that wanted to reform the Anglican Church were called ______

•  Those that wanted to leave and set up their own churches were known as ______

•  Separatist were persecuted , and some fled to the ______

•  They found religious freedom there, but found difficulty finding ______

•  They also feared that their children were losing their religious values and their ______way of life

•  Children started speaking ______

The Pilgrim’s Journey

•  Some Separatists in the Netherlands made an arrangement with the ______Company

•  They would settle in ______and practice religion freely

•  In return they would share any ______they made

•  The Separatists considered themselves ______because their journey had a religious purpose

•  Only 35 of the 102 passengers who boarded the ______were Pilgrims

•  The others were called “______”

•  They were common people- servants, craftspeople, and poor ______

•  Hoped to find a ______place in America

The Mayflower Compact

•  The Mayflower’s passengers planned to ______in the Virginia colony

•  They first sighted ______

•  ______of their target

•  It was November and ______was approaching

•  They settled at ______

•  William ______, their leader and historian, reported that “all things stared upon them with a weather-beaten face”

•  Plymouth was outside the ______of the Virginia Company and its laws

•  Before going ashore, the Pilgrims drew up a formal document, the ______

•  Pledged their ______to England

•  Declared their intention of forming “a civil body politic, for our better ordering and ______.”

•  Promised to obey the laws passed “for the general ______of the colony”

•  Mayflower Compact was a necessary step in the development of ______government in the American colonies

Help from the Native Americans

•  During the first year, almost half of the Pilgrims ______of malnutrition

•  ______

•  ______

•  ______and Samoset, befriended the colonists

•  They showed the Pilgrims how to grow ______, beans, and pumpkins

•  Showed them where to ______and fish

•  Without their help the Pilgrims might not have ______

•  They also helped the colonist make ______with the Wampanoag

•  Massasoit, a Wampanoag leader, signed a ______with the Pilgrims

•  The two groups lived in ______

New Settlements

•  In 1625 ______became the king of England

•  Charles ______to the Puritans

•  ______of the Puritans in England increased again

•  Some Puritans wanted to leave ______

•  1629- a group of Puritans formed the ______Bay Company

•  Received a ______to establish a colony north of Plymouth

•  Puritans wanted to create a society based on the ______

•  Company chose John ______to be the colony’s governor

•  ______- Winthrop led 900 men, women, and children to Massachusetts Bay

•  Most of them settled in ______

Growth and Government

•  1630s- More than ______Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts

•  To escape persecution and ______hard times

•  This movement became known as the Great ______

•  John Winthrop and his assistants made the colony’s ______

•  1634- Settlers demanded a ______role in government

•  The General Court became an elected ______

•  Adult male church members were allowed to ______for the governor and their town’s representatives to the General Court

•  Later they also had to own ______to vote

•  Puritans put their religious beliefs into ______

•  They had little ______for different beliefs

•  ______people of other faiths

•  Lack of ______led people to form new colonies in neighboring areas

Thomas Hooker and Connecticut

•  Fertile Connecticut River Valley was better for ______than rocky Boston

•  1630s people began to ______in this area

•  Massachusetts minister Thomas ______, was dissatisfied with how Winthrop ran the colony

•  1636- Hooker led his congregation to ______

•  ______Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield

•  Adopted a plan of ______called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

•  First written ______in America

•  Described the organization of ______government in detail

Roger Williams and Rhode Island

•  Minister Roger Williams and others were ______out of Massachusetts

•  Williams felt that people should not be ______for religious practices

•  And government should not force people to ______a certain way

•  Williams also believed it was wrong to take land away from ______Americans

•  In 1635- Massachusetts leaders ______him

•  Took ______with the Narraganset people

•  They sold him ______and he founded Providence

•  He received a ______and founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

•  Its policy was religious ______

•  Rhode Island was a safe place for ______

•  1st place in America where people of all ______could worship freely

John Wheelwright and New Hampshire

•  Others followed ______example

•  1638 John Wheelwright led a group of ______from Massachusetts

•  Went ______and founded Exeter in New Hampshire

•  Other Puritans settled ______the same year

•  New Hampshire became an independent ______in 1679

Native Americans

•  Native Americas traded ______for:

•  Iron ______

•  ______

•  ______

•  ______arose however

•  Settlers moved onto Native American ______without permission or payment

•  Throughout the colonial period, English settlers and Native American competed fiercely for the ______

•  1636- ______broke out

•  Two traders were ______in Pequot territory

•  Massachusetts sent ______to punish the Pequot

•  A Pequot killed ______people in Connecticut

•  May 1637- troops in Connecticut ______the main Pequot village killing hundreds

War with the Native Americans

•  1675- New England went to ______against the Wampanoag

•  Metacomet, the Wampanoag chief, was known to settlers as King ______

•  He wanted to stop settlers from ______onto Native American lands

•  Metacomet tried to form a ______of local peoples

•  Many New England groups ______with him

•  The war began after settlers executed three Wampanoags for ______

•  Metacomet’s forces then ______towns across the region

•  Killed ______of people

War Continues

•  Settlers and Native American ______fought back

•  Was called King Philip’s ______

•  Ended in the ______of the Wampanoag and their allies

•  The war destroyed the ______of the Native Americans in New England

•  The colonists were now free to ______their settlement

Essential Question

•  Why did the Separatists and Puritans leave England and settle in North America?

-Separatists: escape ______but maintain their ______values and English way of life

-Puritans: escape ______and establish a new society based on their ______beliefs