Settling New England
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48 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 King James I | tried to control the religion of the people of England |
| Church of England | the official religion of England |
| persecuted | what happened to people who did not practice religion of the king |
| Netherlands | where Pilgrims first went for religious freedom |
| Reasons didnt work in Netherlands/Holland | language, Dutch customs, not farmers |
| New World | Pilgrims journeyed here next |
| English merchants | provided ship, supplies, and crew |
| Mayflower | set sail in 1620 |
| Virginia | orginial destination |
| bad weather | ship got off course and landed North |
| Mayflower Compact | list of rules for the Pilgrims to live by |
| John Carver | first governor of Plymouth |
| Miles Standish | helped search for place to settle |
| Plymouth | colony started in 1621 |
| first winter | very harsh, many died including governor |
| William Bradford | selected new governor |
| Squanto and Samoset | came to greet Pilgrims |
| Squanto | stayed during planting season to help Pilgrims |
| Chief Massosoit | came to like and trust the Pilgrim |
| November 1621 | first Thanksgiving celebration |
| Thanksgiving | held to celebrate harvest |
| 1630 | Puritans arrived |
| Puritans's colony | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Boston | largest of 8 settlements |
| Puritans | only welcome others like them to colonies |
| Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson | disagreed with Puritans leaders, left to start own colony |
| Roger Williams | started colony of Rhode Island |
| Rhode Island Colony | had total religious freedom |
| stern and superstitious | the Puritans |
| Salem | know for tyring witches |
| colonists | left for many reasons |
| Connecticut River Valley | colonists went there for better farming, became Connecticut |
| New Hampshire and Maine | Puritans settled there also |
| Middle Colonies | Quakers |
| New England Colonies | Puritans and Pilgrims |
| Southern Colonies | English Catholics and Protestants |
| William Penn | Established Pennsylvania |
| Pennsylvania | means "Penn's Woods" |
| English Quakers | led by William Penn |
| in Pennsylvania | other religions and nationalities were welcomed, many Germans came |
| Delaware | established in 1682 by William Penn |
| Lord Baltimore | established Maryland with English Catholics |
| Maryland | Catholics and Protestans were welcomed |
| North and South Carolina | started as one colony, spilt in 1729 |
| North Carolina | Virginians settled it in 1650, needed land for tobacco crops |
| Charleston, SC | built in 1670 because of harbor |
| Georgia | last of 13 colonies settled in 1732 |
| James Oglethorpe | leader of Georgia, wanted poor people of England to move there |
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