English Colonies

English Colonies

The Puritan Family

Why are the houses made the way they are??

Tough first winter: a Native

American, Squanto,

helped the Pilgrims

Taught them to plant,

grow, and fish.

Native American SHELTER

•Pilgrims celebrate the first good harvest with a three day feast called a

HARVEST FESTIVAL -not a THANKSGIVING.

A THANKSGIVING was a time of PRAYER AND FASTING (not

eating)

•PURITANS decide to leave England

•1st: PILGRIMS established Mass.•2nd :PURITANS COME OVER IN

HUGE NUMBERS This became known as the Great

Migration.

PURITANS AND PILGRIMS = Same religious beliefs

FOR UNDERSTANDING

The Plymouth settlement celebrated the blessings of the first good harvest, holding a three day the feast called ______ .

• 1) Thanksgiving

• 2) The Quaker festival of Friends

• 3) Plymouth Day

• 4) Harvest Festival

The Pilgrims signed an agreement to obey laws established for the good of the colony called the______. • 1) Mayflower

Compact

• 2) Magna Carta

• 3) Constitution

• 4) Bill of Rights

After a devastating first winter, a Native American,______, helped the Pilgrims.

• 1) Powhatan

• 2) Squanto

• 3) Sitting Bull

• 4) Pocahontas

1. Roger Williams

Roger Williams: Wanted to be nice to the Indians.

PURITANS KICK HIM OUT and he founds RHODE ISLAND

PEOPLE KICKED OUT OF MASSACHUSETTS

"Anne Hutchinson on

Trial"

2. ANNE HUTCHINSON: Believed that all people could hear God’s voice.

•Kicked out by the Puritans goes to New York

Cartoon of the trial of Anne Hutchinson

SALEM WITCH TRIALS

More than a hundred people were arrested and tried for

witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.

The Salem Witchcraft trials resulted in the execution of

20 people mainly by hanging.

"Examination of a Witch" in Salem.

Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the

1690s.

The June 10, 1692 hanging of Bridget Bishop

FOR UNDERSTANDING

In 1692 the ______ resulted in the execution of 20 people mainly by hanging.• 1) Protestant

Reformation

• 2) King Philip’s war

• 3) Salem Witchcraft trials

• 4) Mayflower Compact

PURITANS WAGE WAR ON THE INDIANS

• Despite their early friendship the PURITANS eventually waged a war of genocide (killing an entire race of people) on the NATIVE AMERICANS

–Within 100 years Native Americans were defeated and pushed out of NEW ENGLAND

•New England Colonies: Shipping,

Fishing and trade,

indentured servants,

some farming

•Middle Colonies: •Farming and trade • indentured servants & some slaves

•Southern Colonies: •Farming

•Indentured servants and slaves• tobacco and cotton