2. Were an offshoot of the Puritans
They were officially Separatists (wanted to
completely break away from the Church of
England/Anglican Church)
Puritans wanted to clean up the COE
3. All 41 males signed the
Mayflower Compact
Agreed to pass laws that
were in the best interest of
the colonists
This was one of the 1st
attempts at self-
government in the English
colonies
NOT a constitution
4. Originally traveled to Leiden,
Holland in 1607
Because of cultural concerns,
the Pilgrims abandoned their
experiment
5. Back in Britain, they
approached the VA
Company and asked if
they could settle in
America
Sept 16, 1620, the
Mayflower left England
loaded with 100+ men,
women, and children (only
about 30 were officially
Separatists)
8. In a way similar to the Pilgrims, the Puritans
moved to the New World for religious
reasons as well
Unlike Pilgrims they DID NOT want a formal
separation from the COE
They wanted to purify/change the church,
ridding it of all Catholic rituals
9. James I had been relatively tolerant of Puritans
In 1625, James I died and was replaced by
Charles I
Chucky was not terribly tolerant of Puritan
proposals
10. John Winthrop and another wealthy Puritan,
Sir Richard Saltonstall, decided to form a
company and start an American colony
because they were convinced that England
had fallen on “evil and declining times.”
The charter did not say that they had to meet
in England, so they took it with them to the
New World
11. City Upon a Hill was a sermon given on John
Winthrop’s flagship, the Arbella
Puritans believed they had a covenant or an
agreement with God to build a holy society
12. Winthrop was a strong leader and set examples
for newly arriving colonists with their work ethic
Between 1629 and 1640 about 20,000 people
made the trip in the Great Migration, deciding
they wanted to be a part of the Puritan
experience in Massachusetts Bay.
13. MBC Satellite congregation minister
McDs started in 1940 as BBQ restaurant
under McDonald brothers in San
Bernardino, CA. In 1950s it was remade
as a hamburger stand with assembly line
principles.
The majority of Hooker’s congregants
were unable to participate in govt.
14. Hooker and the members of his church grew
tired of fighting for the right to participate and
decided to move to the fertile Connecticut River
Valley and what would become Hartford, CT
Picture a long convoy of sheep, ducks,
chickens, goats, etc.
15. Hartford along with the neighboring towns of
Windsor and Wethersfield adopted a plan of
government called the Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut (FOC)
King chartered it as a separate colony in 1662
Very similar to the rules found in Massachusetts
Bay with two major differences:
a. Limited the powers of the governor
b. All men who owned property were allowed to vote,
SUFFRAGE FOR THOSE WHO WERE NOT CHURCH
MEMBERS
16. New England town meetings
Harvard established in 1636 to
educate Puritan ministers
Education laws were created so that
children could read the Bible (Old
Deluder Satan Act)
17. Williams arrived in MBC in 1631
Before long he had his own church
in Salem
RW got the attention of the
colony’s leaders because he
taught that colonists should not
take Indian land without paying for
it
He also said that church and
government should be completely
separate
Williams also opposed mandatory
church attendance
18. Williams was viewed as a threat to the Puritan
way of life
General Court decided to banish him to
England
Williams took off into the woods to the south
and lived with a friendly Indian tribe for several
months before he founded Providence
Plantations, RI
New settlement based on his ideas and
allowing all white men to vote
RI guaranteed religious freedom and separation
between church and state
19. Anne believed anyone
could worship God without
the help of a church or
minister
She held weekly Bible
discussions in her home
which were a problem
Puritans believed only
ministers could
comprehend the word of
God
20. She was put on trial
while pregnant with her
16th child at the age of
46
General Court found
her guilty of “traducing
the ministers” AKA
heresy and blasphemy
She was booted out of
the colony
21. In 1638 Anne fled
MBC and was
welcomed in what
colony?
Rogue’s Island (RI)
She was called a
heretic/dissenter
(people who
disagree with official
government
opinions)
23. More than 200 people were accused of
witchcraft
19 people were hanged
1 person was pressed to death
2 dogs were also killed
24. The Dead
Nineteen accused witches were hanged on Gallows
Hill in 1692:
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
One accused wizard was pressed to death on Sept. 19
when he failed to plead guilty or not guilty: Giles
Corey
TWO DOGS:Rover and Spot
Other accused witches died in prison:
Sarah Osborn
Roger Toothaker
Lyndia Dustin
Ann Foster
(As many as thirteen** others may have died in
prison.)
25. Royal colony
Used to be part of
MBC
Settled by fishermen
Captain John Mason
and Sir Ferdinando
Gorges
