Outline of Last LectureOutline of Current LectureCurrent LectureHIST 1501 1st Edition Lecture 5Outline of Last LectureI. MigrationA. Separatists: “Pilgrims” and the Plymouth ColonyB. “Great Migration”: Massachusetts Bay ColonyA. Economic motivations, religious motivations, “city upon a hill”II.Puritan OrthodoxyA. IntoleranceB. Dissenters: Roger Williams, Anne HutchinsonC. Rhode IslandOutline of Current LectureIII. Puritan SocietyA. PoliciesB. Land policiesC. LiteracyD. Commercial EconomyIV. Puritans and IndiansA. WildernessB. Indian RebellionsC. Pequot War (1637)D. Assimilation: Praying TownsE. King Phillip’s (Metacom’s) War (1675)V. Middle ColoniesA. New NetherlandsB. New York/New JerseyC. Pennsylvania- QuakersD. William Penn’s “Holy Experiment”E. DiversityCurrent LecturePuritan Society:• In New England voting was widespread in men who were landowners and church goers• New England towns were fairly compact-more town oriented than Virginia• Easy access to church and schools• Could keep their eyes on one another• Some people did get more land than others but it wasn't as extremesas it was in Virginia• They had family farms that produced for their own families with some surpluses but weren't growing cash crops• New England was a very literate society partially because of religion and reading the bible• Most women and nearly all men could read- children were educated• Harvard was established as the first college to train ministers• New commercialism was brought to England in the forms of trade through ports• Lawyers, merchants, and fishermen became powerful in some parts• Started to get more imported goods• Trade started tension among puritans because it would water-down the puritan mission (they accepted it because it would help the economy but feared character
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