THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
“The Pilgrims, Puritans, Religion, Dissent, and
the Natives”
EQ: HOW DID RELIGIOUS
BELIEFS AND DISSENT
INFLUENCE THE NEW
ENGLAND COLONIES?
EQ: HOW DID RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND
DISSENT INFLUENCE THE NEW
ENGLAND COLONIES?
• We’ve already talked about the differences between the settlers of
Jamestown and the first people who settled in New England (the
“Pilgrims”):
• Purpose for coming?
• Difference in who they brought?
• Difference in what they brought?
• Difference in levels of “success”?
• Difference in population levels?
EQ: HOW DID RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND
DISSENT INFLUENCE THE NEW
ENGLAND COLONIES?
• First things first: THE PILGRIMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This picture is probably very inaccurate!
EQ: HOW DID RELIGIOUS
BELIEFS AND DISSENT
INFLUENCE THE NEW
ENGLAND COLONIES?
• What in the world is a “Pilgrim?”
• Well, to answer that question, you have to understand a lot about religion
(especially the difference between Catholics and Protestants!—AGAIN!)
• 1530’s: King Henry VIII declares himself the leader of the Church of
England (defying the Pope and the Catholic denomination of Christianity)
EQ: HOW DID RELIGIOUS
BELIEFS AND DISSENT
INFLUENCE THE NEW
ENGLAND COLONIES?
• By the early 1600’s, some people wanted to change the Church of
England because it looked like the Church of England kept too much of
the Catholic rituals and traditions.
• In other words, they wanted to “ purify” the Church of England from
within—therefore, they became known as “Puritans.”
• Some Puritans thought that was impossible and wanted to break
altogether—they become known as “Separatists”—one of their groups
become known as the Pilgrims
EQ: HOW DID RELIGIOUS
BELIEFS AND DISSENT
INFLUENCE THE NEW
ENGLAND COLONIES?
The Pilgrims were the group that came over on the Mayflower—from Holland
(even though they were English)—they signed on with the “Virginia
Company” to settle in Jamestown
Before they got off the boat, they thought they might have a problem and
tried to fix it before they got to land: Not everyone on the Mayflower was a
“Pilgrim”….
Checkpoint #1: What kind of problems would the Pilgrims have had if they
would’ve gotten off the boat with a bunch of “non-Pilgrims?”
EQ: HOW DID RELIGIOUS
BELIEFS AND DISSENT
INFLUENCE THE NEW ENGLAND
COLONIES?
The Pilgrims signed what will become known as
the “Mayflower Compact”:
What it says:
EQ: HOW DID RELIGIOUS
BELIEFS AND DISSENT
INFLUENCE THE NEW ENGLAND
COLONIES?
• Checkpoint #2: What is the importance to the Mayflower Compact to the
future of the American Colonies?