Chapter 3

Settling the Northern Colonies

1. The Long Journey

Luther, Calvin & Henry VIII

Religious Transformation

Predestination Conversion Signs Break from Catholicism Purification

2.

Separatists/Pilgrims
Move to Holland, Lose English Heritage Mayflower (1 Death) Plymouth Rock, MA (Virginia, intended destination Mayflower Compact-primitive government Winter (1620/21)- a majority die William Bradford (elected 30xs) Most extreme Puritans

3. Puritans

John Winthrop Massachusetts Bay Colony, A City Upon a Hill Breaking Away Protestant Work Ethic, Devotion to all aspects of life Quakers- defiance, let to cracks in Puritan foundation Anne Hutchinson-banished Antinomianism Rhode Island Sewer Roger Williams- complete religious freedom

4. Colonies Expand

ConnecticutThomas Hooker- Fundamental Orders (1639), later used for state constitution

Maine Part of Massachusetts until 1820 New Hampshire- became royal

colony, broke away from Mass.

5. Native American Conflicts

Pequot War
1637

King Philips War

Metacom Defeated soundly, later captured and killed 52 Puritan villages attacked Weakened N. E. Indians, slowed westward movement

6. English Influence: A Preview ?

New England Confederation

English Civil Wars- little attention paid to colonies(1643)- Mass. Dominated,

Protection against N. Americans Sir Edmund Andros

Dominion of New England Glorious Revolution
1688 William & Mary

(1686)

Salutary Neglect Navigation Laws

7. If you aint Dutch, you aint N.Y.

Henry Hudson
Naval Power (Explorer), Raiding, rather than trading

New Netherland (1623-24)

Dutch Reformed
Patroonship

Peter Stuyvesant
Wall St. English Control (1664)

8. Quakers/Penn., Middle Colonies

William Penn
Quakers
Ethnic Diversity Group of Tolerance

New York, NJ, Delaware & Penn.

Bread Colonies Ben Franklin- City of Brotherly Love