Focus Questions

1. What spiritual convulsion in the Old World resulted in the small settlement of Plymouth in the New World? 2. Why was the initial and subsequent colonisation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony more successful than Plymouth? 3. How did the settlement of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony contribute to the beginnings of American independency and authorities? What were the parts to American independency and authorities from the New England Confederation. the Dominion of New England. and the Glorious Revolution? 4. What function did spiritual intolerance drama in the initiation of New England colonies other than Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay and in the initiation of some in-between settlements? 5. Besides England. what other states influenced the colonisation of the Atlantic seashore of North America? 6. How did the colonisation of Pennsylvania differ from the New England settlements and other in-between settlements?

Chapter Subjects

Subject: Religious and political convulsion in England shaped colony in New England and the in-between settlements. Religious persecution in England pushed the Separatists into Plymouth and Quakers into Pennsylvania. England’s Glorious Revolution besides prompted alterations in the settlements. Subject: The Protestant Reformation. in its English Calvinist ( Reformed ) version. provided the major drift and leading for the colony of New England. The New England settlements developed a reasonably homogenous societal order based on faith and semi-communal household and town colonies. Subject: Principles of American authorities developed in New England with the beginnings of written fundamental laws ( Mayflower Compact and Massachusetts’s royal charter ) and with glances of self-government seen in town hall meetings. the New England Confederation. and colonial resistance to the Dominion of New England. Subject: The in-between settlements of New Netherland ( New York ) . Pennsylvania. New Jersey. and Delaware developed with far greater political. cultural. spiritual. and societal diverseness. and they represented a more widely distributed center land between the tightly knit New England towns and the scattered. hierarchal plantation in the South.

chapter sum-up
The New England settlements were founded by English Puritans. While most Puritans sought to sublimate the Church of England from within. and non to interrupt away from it. a little group of Separatists—the Pilgrims—founded the first little. pious Plymouth Colony in New England. More of import was the larger group of nonseparating Puritans. led by John Winthrop. who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony as portion of the great migration of Puritans flying persecution in England in the 1630s. A strong sense of common intent among the first colonists shaped the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Because of the close alliance of faith and political relations in the settlement. those who challenged spiritual orthodoxy. among them Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams. were considered guilty of sedition and driven out of Massachusetts.

The banished Williams founded Rhode Island. by far. the most sacredly and politically tolerant of the settlements. Other New England colonies. all arising in Massachusetts Bay. were established in Connecticut. Maine. and New Hampshire. Although they shared a common manner of life. the New England settlements developed with a significant grade of independency. The in-between settlements took form rather otherwise. New York. founded as New Netherland by the Dutch and subsequently conquered by England. was economically and ethnically diverse. socially hierarchal. and politically quarrelsome. Pennsylvania. founded as a Quaker haven by William Penn. besides attracted an economically ambitious and politically troublesome population of diverse cultural groups. With their economic assortment. cultural diverseness. and political factionalism. the in-between settlements were the most typically American of England’s thirteen Atlantic seaside settlements.

character studies

Direction: For each of the below persons write a one paragraph description of the individual’s historical significance.

John Winthrop ( 1588–1649 )

Anne Hutchinson ( 1591–1643 )

William Penn ( 1644–1718 )

inquiries for category treatment ( You do non hold to compose these out )

1. Make the Puritans truly come to America seeking spiritual freedom? How did they accommodate their ain spiritual dissent from the Church of England with their persecution of dissidents like Hutchinson and Williams? Does their mentality make them dissemblers? 2. How were authorities and religion—or church and state—related in New England and the in-between settlements? How does the colonial position of these affairs compare with more recent apprehensions?

3. Was an American Revolution. dividing the settlements from England. inevitable after the Glorious Revolution had encouraged settlers to stop the Dominion of New England. England’s serious effort at implementing royal authorization? Did England’s “salutary neglect” contribute to future jobs in its imperium? How might hold England been able to successfully implement its regulation on the settlements without doing rebellion? 4. Dutch colonisation attempts in New Amsterdam most closely resembled English colonisation attempts in which part: New England. the in-between settlements. or the southern settlements?

The Dutch had a powerful presence in the East Indies. so why were the Dutch less successful in the West Indies and North America? What is the permanent influence of the Dutch in English North America? 5. How does the initiation of the New England settlements compare with the beginning of the in-between settlements? In what ways were New England and the in-between settlements each like the South. and in what ways were they different?

6. In what ways were the in-between settlements more unfastened and diverse than New England? In what ways were they less democratic? 7. How did different events in England affect the New England and in-between settlements in the New World? Which was the most affected and least affected by events in the Old World: New England. in-between settlements. or southern settlements? 8. What were the push and pull factors for immigrants coming to each part of English settlements ( New England. the in-between settlements. and the southern settlements ) ?