The Growth of New England

Plymouth and New England

==Geography and Climate==

• Very cold, lots of wilderness
• Near the Atlantic Ocean
• A lot of mountains and hills
• Rocky soil
• New England’s soil wasn’t very fertile and the land had a short growing season

@@Government@@

• Mayflower compact
• Representative government
• Massachusetts Bay Company
• Town meetings
• Church attendance was required by all colonists
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

$Economic Activity$

• Many of the jobs included fisherman, whalers, shipbuilders, and loggers
• There was a lot of trading in occurrence
• Most of the economy relied on the Natural Resources found in the colony

%%Labor Systems%%

• All the labor in the New England colonies came from the colonists themselves

The Expansion of New England

^^Growing Religious Dissent^^

• Many people who came to Massachusetts didn’t want to become super religious, so they left to create their own settlements which helped with expansion
• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were created by the town of Hartford which was established by Thomas Hooker who disagreed with the current government system
• Connecticut was created when New Haven and Hartford were combined

==Rodger Williams==

• Williams felt that Massachusetts Church should abandon the Church of England
• After banishment, Williams created Rhode Island, where there was religious freedom

@@Anne Hutchinson@@

• Anne Hutchinson claimed that all the ministries in Massachusetts were not eligible for office since they hadn’t gone through a conversion process
• She also challenged the role of women in the Puritan society
• Anne and her followers ended up moving to Rhode Island

$New Hampshire and Maine$

• Captain John Mason and Sir Fernando spit the land along the Piscataqua River with a grant from the Council of New England
• Many groups of Puritans ended up moving out to New Hampshire

Settlers and Natives

%%Importance of Indian Assistance%%

• The Natives helped the settlers with growing crops and were trading partners for fur and manufactured goods
• However, the colonists wanted land which caused conflicts with the Natives

^^Shifting Attitudes^^

• The settlers often assaulted the Natives, causing tensions to become even stronger
• Puritans saw them as “savages” and felt that they needed to be rid of
• Food shortages and diseases caused chaos and confusion among the Natives

The Pequot War, King Philip’s War, and the Technology of Battle

==The Pequot Wat==

• English settlers, in a war with the Pequot Natives, burned a stronghold causing the death of most of the tribe; those who lived were sold as slaves

@@King Philip’s War@@

• The leader of the Wampanoags was threatened by the English, causing him to gather firearms against them
• Eventually, the Wampanoags were defeated
• The French started to help other tribes fight against the English

$Flintlock Musket$

• The exchange of weapons made the conflict with Natives even worse as Natives managed to purchase weapons and learned how to use them
• Though they did this along with the combination of their own warfare tactics, they were still defeated in the end