Chapter 3 Section 2-

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Class Notes

1How did religious beliefs and dissent influence the New England colonies?(slide 4)

______played a key role in colonies that were established in New England.

Many colonies were established by people who were ______

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2 A group known as the ______wanted to reform the Church of England. (slide 5)

In the early 1600s, ______who were influential in England.

But in the 1620s,______.

3 In 1630, about 900 Puritans left England in 11 ships, led by ______

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They had formed the______, which received a charter to establish settlements in present-day Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Geography of New England
Location / •New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine are in northern New England.
•Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island are in southern New England.
Landforms / •Much of New England is made up of hills, mountains, and forests.
•Thin and rocky soil makes farming there difficult.
Climate / •Winter are long and snowy, and summers are shorter and warm.
•Colonists caught fewer diseases and lived longer than Virginia colonists.

5 The ______established several settlements in their colony, including Boston. (slide 8)

By 1643, about 20,000 people lived in the______

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By the mid-1630s, Massachusetts Bay had an elected governor and an elected assembly—the General Court—but ______

6 The Puritans believed: (slide 9)

•towns and churches ______

•______and live in strong and stable families.

Each Puritan town governed itself by setting up a______, but only men could participate.

7 Although they founded their own colony so they could have religious freedom, ____

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Disagreements about religion led to the ______in New England.

Providence, Rhode Island
Beginnings / •MinisterRoger Williamsthought the Puritans should split entirely from the Church of England.
•He also thought colonists should pay Native Americans for their land.
•In 1635, Williams was expelled from Massachusetts Bay.
The Colony / •Williams moved to present-day Rhode Island, bought land from Native Americans, and founded Providence in 1636.

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14 While the colonies prospered, Native Americans in New England struggled.

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By 1670, there were only 12,000 Native Americans in New England,______

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15 In 1675, a major conflict erupted between Native American groups led by ______and the Puritans.(slide 18)

During the conflict, which was called King Philip’s War, ______

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After Metacom was killed in 1676, the war ended, leaving the English free to expand

16 By the 1670s, a new generation of people had been born in North America.

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This new generation had lost some of the older Puritans’ religious fervor.

Successful merchants were becoming the______.