New England Colonies Summary
HISTORY 1301 ~ AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877
C H A P T E R 2
NEW WORLD EXPERIMENTS: ENGLAND’S SEVENTEENTHCENTURY
COLONIES
SUMMARY
In the seventeenth century, different and sometimes disparate groups of English settlers established several colonies in North America. The English way of colonization differed from that of the Spanish in that English colonization did not emanate from a desire to create a centralized empire in the New World.
Breaking Away
English migration to the New World was part of a larger pattern of mobility—the New World was just another destination. Some Englishmen migrated to the New World for economic reasons, leaving poverty and seeking land. Others came seeking religious opportunity or to avoid political strife and …show more content…
The second Lord Baltimore insisted on religious toleration of all Christian religions, including Catholicism, within the colony, but this proprietary colony still faced much sectarian trouble during its early days.
Reforming England in America
Calvinist religious principles played an important role in the colonization of New England.
A small group of Separatists, or Pilgrims, first went to Holland and then settled the “Plymouth Plantation.” There these new settlers tried to replicate the villages and communities of England. Without assistance from the local Native Americans, the Pilgrims would not have survived in the New World.
“The Great Migration”
The Puritans, a much larger and wealthier group of religious reformers, wanting to escape the tyranny of King Charles I, established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Under the leadership of John Winthrop, they sailed for the New World to create a better society by purifying English society and the Church from within.
“A City on a …show more content…
Describe the impact of diversity on the settlement of the Middle Colonies.
6. Describe the type of society William Penn tried to create in his “Holy Experiment.”
7. Compare the motives for colonizing Georgia with those for colonizing the other colonies.
8. Discuss the problems of dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colonies.
9. Discuss the similarities and differences between the settlement of the Carolinas and the settlement of the Chesapeake.
GLOSSARY
Be familiar with the following terms for the first exam:
1. duties ~ taxes or sums required by a government to be paid on the transfer or use of goods. “… the duties he collected on tobacco imports began to mount.”
2. indentured servants ~ servants who are bound or contracted under seal to a period of labor. “... most emigrants were single males in their teens or early twenties who came to the New World as indentured servants.”
3. domain ~ territory or land over which authority or dominion is granted to an individual.
“... he possessed absolute authority over anyone living in his domain.”
4. ecclesiastical ~ of or relating to religious matters. “To their enemies … the Puritans were a bother, always pointing out civil and ecclesiastical
C H A P T E R 2
NEW WORLD EXPERIMENTS: ENGLAND’S SEVENTEENTHCENTURY
COLONIES
SUMMARY
In the seventeenth century, different and sometimes disparate groups of English settlers established several colonies in North America. The English way of colonization differed from that of the Spanish in that English colonization did not emanate from a desire to create a centralized empire in the New World.
Breaking Away
English migration to the New World was part of a larger pattern of mobility—the New World was just another destination. Some Englishmen migrated to the New World for economic reasons, leaving poverty and seeking land. Others came seeking religious opportunity or to avoid political strife and …show more content…
The second Lord Baltimore insisted on religious toleration of all Christian religions, including Catholicism, within the colony, but this proprietary colony still faced much sectarian trouble during its early days.
Reforming England in America
Calvinist religious principles played an important role in the colonization of New England.
A small group of Separatists, or Pilgrims, first went to Holland and then settled the “Plymouth Plantation.” There these new settlers tried to replicate the villages and communities of England. Without assistance from the local Native Americans, the Pilgrims would not have survived in the New World.
“The Great Migration”
The Puritans, a much larger and wealthier group of religious reformers, wanting to escape the tyranny of King Charles I, established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Under the leadership of John Winthrop, they sailed for the New World to create a better society by purifying English society and the Church from within.
“A City on a …show more content…
Describe the impact of diversity on the settlement of the Middle Colonies.
6. Describe the type of society William Penn tried to create in his “Holy Experiment.”
7. Compare the motives for colonizing Georgia with those for colonizing the other colonies.
8. Discuss the problems of dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colonies.
9. Discuss the similarities and differences between the settlement of the Carolinas and the settlement of the Chesapeake.
GLOSSARY
Be familiar with the following terms for the first exam:
1. duties ~ taxes or sums required by a government to be paid on the transfer or use of goods. “… the duties he collected on tobacco imports began to mount.”
2. indentured servants ~ servants who are bound or contracted under seal to a period of labor. “... most emigrants were single males in their teens or early twenties who came to the New World as indentured servants.”
3. domain ~ territory or land over which authority or dominion is granted to an individual.
“... he possessed absolute authority over anyone living in his domain.”
4. ecclesiastical ~ of or relating to religious matters. “To their enemies … the Puritans were a bother, always pointing out civil and ecclesiastical