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Massachusetts Bay Colony:
A “City Upon A Hill”
The Pilgrims Arrive
Puritans and the Development of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Pilgrims Arrive
• The Pilgrims (separatists) are escaping religious
persecution under King James I. Pilgrims want to
separate from the Church of England.
• Arrive in 1620 they land outside of the charter’s
grant and must form their own governing body
• The Mayflower Compact, 1620, was the 1st
example of self-rule in colonies. It was written for
the good of all community members and
supported idea of majority rule.
Mayflower
Early Troubles
• Pilgrims go through their
own ‘Starving Time” minus
cannibalism
• Indians will help them learn
about planting crops under
the condition that Pilgrims
protect them from their
enemies
• This is why there is a
famous first Thanksgiving
in the fall of 1621
Thanksgiving, 1621
Pilgrim Leadership
• William Bradford, 1st governor of
Plymouth proclaims Indians are “savage
and brutish men”
• Miles Standish, a soldier will attack
enemies of Wampanoag and placed Indian
heads on pikes
• Pilgrims begin to live on Indian lands and
live in Indian homes left empty because of
diseases and warfare
Miles Standish marching to war,
1622
Puritans
• Puritans are harassed by King Charles and
the Church and flee England in 1630
• They wanted to “purify” the Church of it’s
Catholic practices
• Receive a royal charter to settle in New
England and are a joint-stock company
• Are well prepared for any problem and do
not suffer any hardships like the “Starving
Time”
“City Upon a Hill”
• Sermon by John
Winthrop that inspired
Puritan colonists with
a sense of “holy duty”
• Puritans would be a
model of a perfect
Protestant community
for all the world to see
Puritans
Political Development of
Massachusetts Bay Colony
• The Puritans hold town
meetings were men meet to
make laws and discussed
community issues
• Only male church members
could vote on issues and
elect their representatives
• Those that can vote in local
government are called
“freemen”
• With Indians they at first learn how to
agricultural techniques and learn how to
farm corn, beans, pumpkins, and potatoes
• Puritans are involved in trade with Indians
for items like: blankets, iron pots, metal
tipped arrows and guns
• Puritans will concentrate on raising
livestock which need open fields to graze
and desire Indian land
Social Development of
Massachusetts Bay Colony
• You were required to attend church services
• “New England Way” was a belief that you
should work hard, be honest and be a good
person
• Education is mandatory, every Puritan is
expected to be able to read the bible
• John Winthrop, a lawyer and religious
leader wants New England to be “A City
Upon a Hill”
Economical Development of
Massachusetts Bay Colony
• The regions is not flat like in the Chesapeake
Bay region (no land to plant crops)
• Puritans adapt to region and are involved in
fishing, fur trading, lumbering and farming
• They will also become the largest ship
building region of the colonies due the forest
areas surrounding them
• Puritans will also be heavily involved in trade
with the Caribbean and Europe
Conflict with Native Americans
• The Pequot War will be a war against Dutch
settlers and Indians over trade in the region
• It is a brutal war. Puritans will burn
hundreds of Indians alive in a stockade
• The Pequot tribe will be almost wiped out
and sold into slavery
• King Philip’s War will be mainly because of
Puritan land grabs of Indian land
Indians raiding Puritan settlement