Chapter 3 Colonial America Section 2New England Colonies

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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