Massachusetts Bay ColonyPilgrims and Puritans

Free at Last

Free at Last

VocabularyPilgrims

Mayflower

Separatists

Mayflower Compact

Puritans

Squanto

Purify

New England Way

PILGRIMSKnown as Separatists in

England - wanted out (to separate) from the Church of England

Were fined, jailed and at times killed b/c of religion

Pilgrims: didn’t want gold but religious freedom

September 1620 - Mayflower sailed, got off course by Nov. landed in Massachusetts not Virginia

1620 1620 a group of 102 a group of 102 people people

Pilgrims were blown off course and Pilgrims were blown off course and landed outside of Jamestown landed outside of Jamestown authority. authority.

Outside of the legal authority of the Virginia Co,

Who makes the rules for the new colony?

The Mayflower

MAYFLOWER COMPACTALL ON THE MAYFLOWER AGREED AND SIGNED BEFORE

DEPARTING SHIP.

IT WAS THEIR RULES FOR SELF GOVERNMENT

MAYFLOWER COMPACTArrived in Mass. They

called it Plymouth.

Wrote document before they got off boat.

Rules for colony saying they word work together.

1st time colonists claimed right to govern themselves!!!

That First Year….That First Year….

Winter of 1620-1621

Only 44 out of the original 102 survived.

None chose to leave in 1621 when the Mayflower sailed back.

Fall of 1621 First “Thanksgiving.”

Colony survived with fur, fish, and lumber.

Plymouth stayed small and economically unimportant.

1691 only 7,000 people

Merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Native AmericansHelped Pilgrims survive

Squanto - helped the most: gave seeds for corn, beans, pumpkins, & taught them how to plant crops and fish for eel in rivers

Thanksgiving - 2nd autumn after arrival to celebrate good harvest

The Others From England

PuritansWho were they and why were they

different?

Puritans from England

Wanted to change and “purify” the Church of England not leave the church like the Pilgrims.

Came to North America to worship as they pleased

Why were the Puritans Successful?

1. Well equipped,

prepared

2. Sailed in March

had time to plant

to harvest in fall.

3. Great leadership

Massachusetts Bay ColonyHow it Grew

1630 -great migration of Puritans

Great Leadership

Many professionals, lawyers, land owners, merchants

Governor John Winthrop

Wanted Colony to be example to the world as a model community

Puritan belief– Duty– Hard work– EducationThese showed their

obedience to God

The New England Way

Congregation:People who belong to the same church

Meeting HouseMost important buildingTown meetings-laws and

community decisions made

Massachusetts ColonyOnly males vote And hold office

General court name for

lawmaking body

Non Puritans did not have same rights as Puritans

New England Way continued

Society Stressed– Duty

– Godliness

– Hard work

– Honesty

Education very important- so every one could read the Bible!!!!!

Amusements would lead to being lazy

Characteristics of New Characteristics of New England SettlementsEngland Settlements

Characteristics of New Characteristics of New England SettlementsEngland Settlements

Low mortality Low mortality average life expectancy was 70 average life expectancy was 70 years of age.years of age.

Average 6 children per family.Average 6 children per family.

Average age at marriage:Average age at marriage:

Women – 22 years oldWomen – 22 years old

Men – 27 years old.Men – 27 years old.

Hugh Growth in Colony

1630-1643 more than 20,000 people settle in Massachusetts

1691

Massachusetts and Plymouth combine into one called Massachusetts

Massachusetts Bay Categories

Reason for founding the

colony

Challenges Colonist’s Faced

People who founded colony

What made the colony

successful

Government of the colony

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Plymouth

What was happening in North Carolina

People moving south and Carolina becomes its own colony

Vocabulary

Lord Proprietors

Culpepper

Back country

Royal Colony

Carolina GrowsGood land around Jamestown, VA becomes scarce. Newcomers begin to settle west and south around the Albormoral sound.

King Creates a new colony and rewards 8 Lords by putting them in charge of the colony. (Lord proprietors) 1663.

Residents of Carolina owned the land but had to pay a tax a quit-rent, annual tax to Lords

Settlers in NC less wealthy than Virginia

Settlers around Albarmoral sound were one district and Settlers around Pamlico sound were in another district. First Town, Bath

Carolina Grows

Much conflict between groups in North Carolina, created Culpeppers rebellion against the Lord Proprietors and governing North Carolina was difficult.

Tuscora rebelled against settlers and were defeated.

People began to move west

Most people lived east of the fall line. But many came, and settled in the piedmont. Germans, Scotch Irish, Quakers, Moravians

Farming was very difficult for them and they were mostly poor compared to the colonists in the eastern part of the state.

Review Settlement of North Carolina

Write down 5 characteristics of the settlement in North Carolina.