The New England

Colonies & The Puritans

Why did Puritans come to the new colonies?

Why did some people leave the Puritan colonies?

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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

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Puritans• Puritans ranged in all

classes: wealthy some farmers, some well-educated some aren’t

• Charles I didn’t like the Puritans– Jailed them– Canceled business

charters

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Puritans

• 1629 England had fallen on “evil and declining times”

• John Winthrop: believed they should start a new colony– Becomes 1st

governor

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Puritans

• Tradition of oldest son inheriting wealth– Got the shaft if you weren’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 non- Puritans 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

Unhappy Puritans

• Thomas Hooker: left puritans to settle in Connecticut– No 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– 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

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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

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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

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Puritans

• Sabbath: holy day of rest– Couldn’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

• Economy: – Rocky soil hard to farm– Lots of wild turkey and deer– Huge ports– Whale hunters

Puritans

• 1700s Puritan tradition declined but before it does there is a little bit a craziness

• Outbreak of Witchcraft Hysteria

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

• 1684 Witchcraft is outlawed• 1888 Goody Gloveris accused of acting bizarre

because Martha Goodwin children were acting weird

• The weirdness spreads to two other children• The story gets weirder. . . .

– Listen as I tell the story– http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/29529-

assignment-discovery-salem-witch-trials-video.htm– http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/28687-

assignment-discovery-historical-documents-video.htm

• Let’s read the cross examination

Death

• June 10 Bridget Bishop • July 19 Rebecca Nurse Sarah Good

Susannah Martin Elizabeth Howe Sarah Wildes

• August 19 George Burroughs Martha Carrier John Willard George Jacobs, Sr. John Proctor

• September 22 Martha Corey Mary Eastey Ann Pudeator Alice Parker Mary Parker Wilmott Redd Margaret Scott Samuel Wardwell

Death

• One accused witch (or wizard, as male witches were often called) was pressed to death on September 19 when he failed to plead guilty or not guilty:Giles Corey

• Other accused witches died in prison:Sarah Osborn Roger Toothaker Lyndia Dustin Ann Foster

Salem Witch Trial

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEv4FlmHbYY– Part 1 & Part 2

Work Cited

• http://www.nps.gov/history/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/histcontextsd.htm

• http://endtimepilgrim.org/puritans.htm• http://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/

2009/09/22/feast-of-charles-i-king-of-england-and-scotland-january-30/

• http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/John_Winthrop/

• http://amscoextra.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-fear-not-what-man-can-do-unto-me.html