2. 
 As the year 1700 approached we see a decrease in
English immigration and indentured servants
 In order to counteract the slowing English
immigration planters turned to African Slaves
 Slavery had been in place both in African and Europe
for Millennia
 Prices of slaves also began to justify their purchase
over indentured servants
 Legal changes also, most importantly the ending of
the Monopoly of the Royal African Company, pushed
this change
Rise of Slavery

3. 
The Puritans
 The Puritans were not a united
group initially but instead reform
minded Englishman
 In England Church and State
were united in the Church of
England
 Puritans were focused on
pushing the church back to a
“Simpler” Focus
 Puritans came from all ranks of
society but most belonged to the
“Middle Class”
 At the beginning of the 17th
century the Puritans began to see
their options in England dwindle
and turned to the New World

4. 
The Puritans moving
into the New World
 The First attempt to colonize
the new world by the Puritan
followers was in Maine in
1607 but it was unsuccessful
 To get away from the issues
of England some Puritans
moved to the Netherlands
and other areas in Europe
 John Smith began to push for
settlement in what would
become New England as early
as 1614 AD
 The First push for settlement
was by 102 separatists who
boarded the Mayflower and
landed at Plymouth in 1620
AD

5. 
 In 1629/1630 developments in England began to push
Puritans/Seperatists out of the country
 These settlers were led by John Winthrop who eventually
gained the royal charter as the Massachusetts Bay Company
 Colony was a republic
 First founded the city of Boston
 After one year the colony began to prosper quicker than the
Chesapeake
 The combination of both the religious and political goals of the
Puritans led them to develop the concept of the “City on a Hill”
 Because of the prosperity the colonies began to expand to the
north forming new cities and towns
The Great Migration

6. 

7. 
 Towns were founded through land grants from the
Colony to men who acted as a corporate group
 Colonies only defined boundaries not how land was
distributed
 Farming was the main goal of each colonist but to
smaller profits than in the south
 Expansion was not only political but also religious
more so than any other region
 This expansion for New England was typically at the
expense of Native American tribes
Expansion

8. 
 Due to the location of New England there were a number of
major differences with the Chesapeake
 Main labor source was family
 Farms were modest in size and diverse
 Social hierarchy was not as drastic
 Towns offered a variety of social/cultural/religious
opportunities
 New Englanders were healthier
 Religion also played a major part in the life of New Englanders
 There were typically more clergymen in New England than
any other region
 Early focus was on excluding people outside of the Puritan
faith from the region
Life in New England

9. 
Life Cont.
 Other than Farming small
industry and fishing
dominated commerce in the
early Colonial period
 These industries were
initially shunned by the
Puritans but eventually
others expanded
 Due to this expansion non-
puritan dominated seaports
along the coast
 By the end of the 17th century
New England had become a
major economic region in the
Empire
 Due to their growing
economic importance New
England came under attack by
the Crown

10. 
 The New England colonies had a problematic relationship
with the local natives
 The native Americans came to rely on the consumer goods
of European states
 Europeans took advantage of weakened disconnected
native peoples
 During the 1620’s and 30’s we see Colonists set up “Praying
Towns” near traditional home areas
 First major conflict was the Pequot War in 1636 and
ended with a slaughter of the Pequot
 Set the stage for problematic relations with other Native
groups
Relations with Native
Americans

11. 
King Phillip’s War
 In the 1675 the colonists
pushed a Wampanoag Chief
Metacom, aka King Phillip, to
the edge
 The New English provoked
Metacom by capturing and
executing three Wampanoag
warriors
 Wampanoag’s began to
target isolated colonial
homestead and outposts
using Pequot’s War as an
example
 The Wampanoag also took
advantage of the Flintlocks
they had acquired
 The New English lacked the
ability fight Metacom’s men
without other native groups

12. 
King Phillip Cont.
 The New English reached out to the
Pequot, Mohegan, and Praying town
Natives for help
 During the spring and Summer of
1676 the allies helped turn the tide of
the war
 The New English abandoned
traditional European military
tactics for Native tactics
 The Manpanoag’s also began to run
out of supplies during this time and
suffered
 As a result the Native resistance fell
apart especially when Metacom
was killed in August
 The war devastated both the New
English as well as the Natives and the
New English punished the Natives for
their losses