New England Colonies

1. New England Colonies The English Establish 13 Colonies (1585-1732)

2. Cause / Effect • John Winthrop - ______________________________ _______________________________________________ • Separatists want to leave the Church of England. • King James persecutes the Separatists. • Pilgrims ask Virginia Company for passage to America. • Dissenters - _______________________________ _____________________________________________ • Persecuted - ______________________________ _____________________________________________

3. Cause / Effect • Pilgrims land in area beyond the Virginia Company’s charter. • Men on the Mayflower sign the Mayflower Compact. • Self-government and majority rule. • Tolerance - _______________________________ _____________________________________________

4. Cause / Effect • Squanto teaches the Pilgrims to plant native crops. • Pilgrims survive and celebrate the first Thanksgiving.

5. Cause / Effect • Puritans - ___________________________________ _______________________________________________ • Puritans are persecuted in England. • Puritan merchants form Massachusetts Bay Company and receive charter to settle New England. • 1630-1640, 20,000 settlers cross the Atlantic. (Great Migration) • Congregations - ______________________________ _______________________________________________

6. Cause / Effect • Puritans are intolerant of other religious views. • Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts and founds Rhode Island. • Banished - ___________________________________ ________________________________________________ • Puritan dissenters form the colonies of New Hampshire (Anne Hutchinson) and Connecticut (Thomas Hooker). • Quakers believed that women were spiritually equal to men. • Whipped, jailed, banished, and executed by the Puritans.