Advanced Placement
United States History
Chapter Three/Four
Kennedy/Cohen/Bailey
The American Pageant
Lecture Outline
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Topics:
• Settling the Northern
Colonies
• New England:
Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode
Island, New Hampshire
• Era of “Salutary Neglect”
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Topics:
• Dominion of New England
• Puritan Lifestyles
• The Middle Colonies:
New York, New Jersey,
Delaware, Pennsylvania
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New England Colonies
• Massachusetts (including
Maine, Plymouth
Plantation)
• Connecticut
• Rhode Island
• New Hampshire
Colonial Flag sometimes called the Flag of New England
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Calvinism/Puritanism
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John Calvin
Presbyterians
Huguenots
Dutch Reform
Church
• Puritans
John Calvin
Martin Luther
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Puritanism
• Predestination
• Religious Schism
between Anglicans
and Puritans
• English Puritans
• Church of England
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Puritanism
• Henry VIII
• Elizabeth I
• Separatists
• Non-Conformists
Henry VIII
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Puritan Churches
Meeting House,
Rhode Island,
1789
Family Pews
Pulpit
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Puritan Churches
Puritan
Meeting
Houses
Rhode Island
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Notes:
• James I (James IV)
• Stuart Dynasty
• Plymouth
Plantation
(Pilgrims)
• Separatists
• Mayflower
Compact
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Notes:
• William Bradford
• Capt. Miles Standish
• Massachusetts Bay Colony,
1629
• Charles I
• Mass. Charter
• John Winthrop
J. Winthrop
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Notes:
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Great Migration
• 75,000 Puritan Refugees
• 18,000 Flee to
New England
• 57,000 Flee to
British West
Indies
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Image of Puritans:
1845 Portrait of Pilgrims
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Image of Puritans:
1640s Portrait of John Winthrop by van Dyke
Details of head and hands from earlier version
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Image of Puritans:
Mason children of New England, 1670
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Image of Puritans:
Elizabeth Wensley of Boston, 1670
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Image of Puritans:
Elizabeth Freake & Mary, 1671/74
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Image of Puritans:
Lithograph of Arrest of a Salem Witch
1883
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Image of Puritans:
19th Century Images of Salem Witches
1876
1869
1884
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Religion Among the
Puritans
• Bay Colony – Theocracy or
Oligarch?
• Election Day
Sermons
• Visible “Elect”
• aka:“Saints”
• Testimonials
• Conversions
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Notes:
• Massachusetts General
Court
• Quakers
• Congregationalists
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Rhode Island – Roger Williams
Providence, RI
Baptist Church
R.Williams
Introduces
Religious
Tolerance to
Rhode Island…
Roger Williams
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The Bloudy Tenent of
Persecution, 1644.
God requireth not an uniformity of
Religion to be inacted and inforced
in any civil state… true civility and
Christianity may both flourish in a
state or Kingdome, notwithstanding
the permission of divers and
contrary consciences, either of Jew
or Gentile.
Roger Williams
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Notes:
• 1644 – Rhode Island receives
Charter from Parliament
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Connecticut River Colony
Hartford, 1635
Rev. Thomas Hooker, 1636
New Haven, 1638
Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut, 1639
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Notes:
• 1623, Sir Ferdinando Gorges
founds Maine
• 1677, Massachusetts Bay
Colony purchases Maine
• 1679, Charles II grants New
Hampshire separate charter
as royal colony
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New England
Confederation, 1643
• Bay Colony, Plymouth
Plantation, Connecticut
Valley, New Haven
• Maine and Rhode Island
refused admission as
heretic colonies
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Dominion of New
England, 1686-1689
• Governor Sir Edmund Andros
• Glorious Revolution, 1688-89
• William and Mary, House of
Orange
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Lifestyles of Puritan
New England
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Puritan Oligarchy
“blue laws”
Townships
Covenants
Town Meetings
The “elect,” or “visible elect”
Testimonials
Half-way Covenants,“jeremiads”
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Roots of Democracy in
Puritanism
• Congregationalist form of
church government
• Town Meetings
Norman Rockwell’s
The Four Freedoms,
1943
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Three-Prong Attack
upon Puritanism
1. Social – limited land &
overpopulation leads to
division of families, and
migration
2. Religious – decline of fervor
& piety within church
membership
3. Political – lost of charters
and self-government
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Salem Witchcraft
Trials, 1692
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Holland & Sweden in
North America
• 1609 – Dutch East India
Company
• Henry Hudson
• 1623 – Dutch
West India
Company
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• New Holland - New Amsterdam
• Dutch Reform Church
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1638
New
Sweden
Delaware
Bay
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Martin Luther - http://www.luther.de/
John Calvin - http://www.gettysburg.edu/~s481585/JOHNCALVINANDCALVINISM.HTML
Stained Glass - http://www.sgm.abelgratis.com/subfram.htm
Henry VII - http://tudorhistory.org/henry8/henryholbein.jpg
Rhode Island Meeting House - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=me/me0000/me0077/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recN
um=0&title2=Alna%20Meetinghouse,%20State%20Rt.%20218,%20Alna,%20Lincoln%20County,%20ME
&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:1:./temp/~ammem_L38d::
Rhode Island Meeting Houses - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/displayPhoto.pl?path=/pnp/habshaer/ri/ri0300/ri0314/photos&topImages=146718pr.jpg&topLinks
=146718pv.jpg,146718pu.tif&title=HABS,+RI,5-WICK,1-2&displayProfile=0
James I - http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon46.html
Mayflower - http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/eritrea/117/plpl/pl2/miimypage.html
John Winthrop - http://loki.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/0colhis/neng09.jpg
John Winthrop - http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/winthrop.htm
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/winthrop.html
Mason children - http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/01.html
Elizabeth Wensley - http://www.ocmayflower.org/pilgrim2.htm
Elizabeth Freake & Mary http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/Artists/unidentified_17th/elizabeth_f/catalog.
html
Witches - http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/generic.html
Preaching - http://www.4america.com/archives/great_awakening/
Rockwell – Town Meeting - http://phoenix.about.com/library/blrockwell1.htm
Henry Hudson - http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/hudson1.html
New Amsterdam - http://www.nnp.org/documents/index.html
New Sweden - http://www.colonialswedes.org/History/History.html
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