The English ColoniesCh. 2, sec. 3-4

Main Ideas Puritans come to the New World for religious freedom.

After the English Civil War new colonies are established in America

Puritans / Separatists / Pilgrims

• Puritans/Separatists leave England for New World for religious freedom– Don’t like Anglican Church

• Pilgrims had fled to Holland, don’t like it, join Puritans on Mayflower – establish Plymouth Colony

• Mayflower Compact reading

Mayflower Compact Written agreement by

consensus of Pilgrims arriving at New Plymouth in November 1620

Fair and equal laws, for the general good of the settlement and with the will of the majority

Colony was to be free of English law

Devised to set up government from within themselves and written by those to be governed

Massachusetts Bay Colony • John Winthrop

(Gov.) est. Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630s –– Refuge for Puritans

• General Court – freemen, those that owned stock in MBC– representative govt– Made laws, elected

gov

If you question Puritan ideas – banished!!!

Those banished form RI, CT, NH, & Maine

New England Colonies

Massachusetts

Connecticut

Rhode Island

New Hampshire

Maine (part of Mass.)

New Netherlands New York

• Dutch own NN• Henry Hudson hired

to find route to the Pacific

• Charles II wants NN• 1664 - sends his

brother, Duke of York• England takes NN

from Dutch • Re-named New York• Not very creative….

Penn’s Woods - Pennsylvania

• William Penn Senior owed money by the King

• Dies before getting paid• 1680 – Charles II offers

the son, William Penn, land as payment

• Penn is a Quaker - pacifism

Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

• Maryland– Lord Baltimore– Catholic Colony

• NC / SC – At first one– NC – no harbor, – tobacco– SC – Sugar cane

• Georgia– Debtor’s Colony