PURITANS Religious ideals Thomas Hariot and John White o A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia 1588 Like a travel tourist pamphlet o Not enough change in English catholic church leads people to separate puritans Wanted more bare churches a simpler church experience They believe there is a pint in their life where they have a change in relationship with god ie Becoming a Saint covenant of grace Monarchy James I killed many puritans because of their ideas Puritans move west to escape religious persecution o A divine mission Pilgrims come over called separatists half of them die off First thanksgiving Squanto helped out Back then thanksgiving was a celebration of getting through a hard time Natives helped them to survive in the new land o John Winthrop a city upon a hill Puritans to be a good example pilgrims who want to go back someday when the church is reformed Separatists did not intend to go back to England o They want a community and everyone to look out for everyone o Over 1000 new people are coming to the new boston and not everyone is devout puritan Christian o Decenters people that don t follow the puritan way Pequot war 1637 ie TOTAL WARFARE o Dutch and English settlements expand Connecticut English allowed pigs to be feral but knew which pig was theirs Natives would kill the pig and eat it unknowing Leads to conflicts between natives and Englishmen Pigs would digup native clambeds Whose property is whose o Differences in approach to land Native americans Major impact Puritans o Growing English population Much healthier people because of food more babies More people are moving west Conflicts arise people die Naragansit and mohegans ally with puritans surround Pequot village kill as o Total warfare Half way covenant many as possible o Connected to the changing situation within puritan religion o Decreased amount of saints as generations pass o Liberalization of the rules o Children of full members could be baptized but did not have to have a conversion experience o Could have political rights but could not participate in communion o Not all churches agreed used as an excuse for why puritans aren t a city on a hill and are falling out of gods favor Declension o Samuel Danforth A brief recognition of new englands errand into the wilderness Problems because of halfway covenant and people are too involved in making money Said puritans came for religious freedom but are instead focusing on getting rich Said Pequot war and crop failures are retribution by god Metacoms or King Philips War bloodiest war in American history o Strain between neighbors English taking more native land Pressure for natives to become christianized o The problematic relationship Native Americans how much do you accept of the foreign culture before you completely lose your original culture Power Dependency want the manufactured goods that make life easier and weapons also o Traded land for the goods o War broke out started with the murder of native John Sassamon native educated by the English and started working for English as spy against natives Considered a traitor among the natives English still don t see John as their person still a second class citizen o English take three Wampanoag prisoners and execute them They were found guilty in their courts of law o Wampanoags and two other tribes kill as many English as possible English vice versa o Natives do well in first part of war o First American best seller written after this Mary Rowlandson it was a narrative o 5000 natives killed o Stunted the growth of colonial expansion for a gen o The war ended the legal autonomy of new englands native americans o 500 colonists died most destructive war in Am History in proportion to total pop o Puritan justification and American identity rembmbering the war Increase Mather o Revocation of the Massachusetts bay charter o Dominion of New England Puritans upset about not having control over their own lives
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