Transcript The New Enlgnad Coloines & The Puritians

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The New
England
Colonies & The
Puritans
Why did Puritans come to the new colonies?
Why did some people leave the Puritan
colonies?
• Based on the location and this chart
how do you think they New England
people made money?
Resources
Lumber
Fish
Whales
Animal Furs
Puritans
• Pilgrims: wanted to separate from
English Church
• Puritans didn’t want to separate from
English church just wanted to reform it
– Simpler way of worship get rid of
• Organ music
• Decorated church
• Special clothing
Puritans
• Puritans ranged in all
classes: wealthy some
farmers, some welleducated some aren’t
• Charles I didn’t like the
Puritans
– Jailed them
– Canceled business
charters
Puritans
• 1629 England had
fallen on “evil and
declining times”
• John Winthrop:
believed they should
start a new colony
– Becomes 1st
governor
Puritans
• Sabbath: holy day of rest
– Couldn't’t work
– No play
– Had to go to church-last all day!
Puritans
• Women and men separated at church
• Natives and Black could sit in Balcony
Puritans
• Town meetings: where settlers
discussed and voted on issues
• Strict laws!
– 1692 Salem Village executed 20 men and
women because they were convicted as
witches
Puritans
• Tradition of oldest son inheriting wealth
– Got the shaft if you weren't’t the oldest
– Go to New world all the land you could
hope for
Puritans
• 1630: 1000 people in Massachusetts
Bay Colony
• Only stock holders got the right to vote
– Most people who came weren’t stock
holders
– Could you see some issues that arise?
Puritans
• Then . . . . Puritans wanted to keep nonPuritans out of government
– Religious freedom?
Puritans
• All male church members got the right
to vote and elect representatives to an
assembly: General Court
• By 1640 15,000 people come
Puritans
• 1700s Puritan traditions declined but
before it does there is a little bit of
craziness
• Outbreak of Witchcraft Hysteria, will talk
about later!
Unhappy Puritans
• Puritan leaders did not like anyone to
question their religious beliefs or the
way the colony was governed.
• Those who opposed life in
Massachusetts Bay were forced to
leave
• Some colonists who left founded other
colonies in New England.
Unhappy Puritans
• Thomas Hooker: left
puritans to settle in
Connecticut
– Not happy that governor
and church officials had
too much power
– New colony had strict
limits on government
Unhappy Puritans
• 1639 Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut:
– All men who owned property got the right
to vote
– Limited governors power
Unhappy Puritans
• Roger Williams:
– minister in Salem,
Mass.
– Not liked by all puritans
because of his ideas
• Church and state should
be separate!
• Shouldn’t force people
to go to church
Unhappy Puritans
• Religious Tolerance: wiliness to let
other practice their own beliefs
• He was order to leave the colony
– Fled
– Spent winter with Natives
– Bought a settlement, Rhode Island
– Freedom of religion
Oh no you didn’t!
• Anne Hutchison:
– Devote Puritan
– Questioned some of ministers teaching
Oh no you didn’t!
• Puritan were mad, specially because
women didn’t have the right to explain
God’s Law
• Appeared before Massachusetts
General Court
– She really didn’t break any laws
Oh no you didn’t!
• Things looked good
then . . .
– She said God spoke,
“By the voice of His
spirit to my soul.”
– Court kicked her out:
she went to Rhode
Island
New Hampshire
• Land was granted to Captain John
Mason who lived in Hampshire County,
England.
• He came to start a fishing colony.
• He died before ever seeing where he
had spent a considerable amount of
money building towns and defenses.
EDUCATION
Do you think the New Englanders valued
education? Why or why not?
EDUCATION
• Education was very important to the
New England Colonies
– Believed all people had a duty to study the
Bible.
– If they could not read they could not fulfill
their duty as a good Puritan.
EDUCATION
• 1642 law passed in Massachusetts
– All parents must teach their children to
read and understand the bible.
EDUCATION
• Towns with 50 or more families had to
hire a schoolteacher.
• Towns with 100 or more families had to
set up a grammar school to prepare
boys for college.
– Paid teacher in goods(foods, shelter)
Natives
• What do you think the Natives thought
of all these white folks moving in?
Natives & Puritans
• 1670s 45,000 English settlers
• Natives aren’t to keen on the newbies
• Wampanoag Chief (Metacom) was
ticked
– Started attacking the settlers
• 12 towns destroyed
• 600 dead
• Metacom and 1000 natives eventually captured
and sold into slavery
Wampanoag's Land
New England Colonies
• Economy:
– Rocky soil hard to farm
– Lots of wild turkey and deer
– Huge ports
– Whale hunters
Salem Witch Trials
• Talk about going a little nuts!
• Some bored teenage girls who must of
wanted to have some fun.
Crazy town
• Outbreak of Witchcraft Hysteria in
Salem
– Strong belief that Satan is acting in the
world
– Belief Satan recruits witches and wizards
to work for him
– In times of trouble Satan is more likely
active
Puritans go a little crazy
• During this time their a belief that the Devil
harm people
• Over 200 people would be accused of
witchcraft and 20 executed
• In Salem things go wacky
• 1684 Witchcraft is outlawed
Puritans go a little crazy
• Reverend Samuel Parris
is the ordained minister in
1689 and not well liked
• 1692: Parris daughter
Elizabeth (9) & Abigail
Williams (11) starting have
fits- screaming, throwing
things
– Sounds like a tamper fit to
me
• Local doctor blamed the
supernatural
Puritans go a little crazy
• Tituba- Caribbean
Island Slave
• Sarah GoodHomeless beggar
• Sarah OsbornElderly improvised
woman
• Outcasts, not taken
seriously.
• No husband or
(male) for support.
• Easy targets for
being accused
• Only way of
proving you were
not a witch was by
accusing others.
Puritans go a little crazy
• Tituba admits to it, but lets think about
the Caribbean culture
• The others deny
• Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne
sentenced to death
• More and more are accused
– These next people would be more “normal
or well to dos in the society
Puritans go a little crazy
• The girls would take the stand and even
faint
• Talk about drama queens
Puritans go a little crazy
• 19 hanged on
Gallows Hill
• 71 year old
pressed to death
with heavy stones
• Several died in jail
• Over 200 accused
of practicing the
“devil’s magic”
End of Story
• All made up and all guilty/or dead were
pardon
• Too bad they were already dead
• Money given to family of the dead for
restoration
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/briefsalem.html?c=y&page=2
Puritans go a little crazy
• Let’s watch a little of the story
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Work Cited
• http://www.nps.gov/history/ethnography/aah/a
aheritage/histcontextsd.htm
• http://endtimepilgrim.org/puritans.htm
• http://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/2009/09/22
/feast-of-charles-i-king-of-england-andscotland-january-30/
• http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encycloped
ia/John_Winthrop/
• http://amscoextra.blogspot.com/2007/11/ifear-not-what-man-can-do-unto-me.html