New England

Who were the Puritans?

• The Puritans wanted to purify the church of England.
• They could not make changes to the church without being punished.
• They settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony

Why did they come to the New World?

• The Puritans waned to purify the Church of England.
• They set out to the New World since they could not purify the church in England without being punished.
• The Puritans settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire.

A Puritan Town

• A Puritan town was centered around a common, a patch of grass where people let their livestock graze.
• The stores and the meeting house were nearest to the common.
• The mills, fields and houses were further away from the common.

A Puritan Town

Puritan Daily Life

• Puritan boys went to school. They learned to read and write from the Bible
• The men had jobs.
• Puritans had to go to church every day.
• If someone broke the rules, they could be expelled from the colony, be in stockade, have public whippings, or even hangings.

Roger Williams

• Roger Williams studied Indian languages and grew fond with the relations between them and the English government.
• He thought it was wrong to take Indian lands without any payment to them.
• He became enemies with the English government and was expelled from the colony
• He sought protection from an Indian tribe and bought land from the Indians to make a settlement called Providence in Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson

• Anne did not go to school but learned from her father`s discussions.
• Her family followed their favorite minister to the New World.
• Anne began to hold weekly prayer meetings in her home for the women of the colony.
• More men and woman came to her. The church feared she would become more popular than them.
• Anne was brought to trial and was asked to deny her beliefs. She did not deny them and was expelled from the colony.
• Roger Williams encouraged her to make a new settlement in Rhode Island.
• She did not purchase the land from the Indians and her and most of her family were later killed by Indians.

Social classes/Individual Roles

• Women took care of the children and cleaned and cooked.
• Men worked.
• Kids went to school.

Indentured Servants

• An Indentured servant was some one who asked a family who had a lot of money to pay for their ticket to the New World.
• They would then do chores for the family until they had enough money to pay back their ticket.