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Chapter 3 Outline: Settling the Northern Colonies 1. The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
 * Started by Martin Luthers 95 thesis
 * Calvinism started by John Calvin
 * Used Martin Luthers idea
 * Puritans vowed to break away from the Church of England
 * James I threatened to harass them away from the land

2. The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
 * Puritans departed for Holland
 * Later went to America
 * Used self-government via the Mayflower Compact
 * Plymouth had rough winters
 * Only 44 of 102 survived the first
 * Merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1961

3. The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
 * made by puritans who were not separists
 * refugees went to Massachusetts or the Carribean
 * John Winthrop was the governor of the colony

4. Building the Bay Colony
 * only saints were allowed to vote for the governor
 * people were to follow Gods law and to pay taxes
 * government officials could not be religious leaders

5. Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth
 * church had strict laws
 * Quakers were persecuted with fines for flouting the authority of the Puritan Clergy
 * Anne Hutchinson was banished so she went to Rhode Island
 * Roger Williams was also banished

6. The Rhode Island “Sewer”
 * Religious tolerance
 * Roger Williams builds a Baptist Church
 * Rogues Island
 * Outcasts from other colonies
 * Independent and individualistic

7. New England Spreads Out
 * Connecticut River Colony
 * Reverend Thomas Hooker = leader
 * New Haven
 * Puritans
 * Church and government
 * Maine
 * Fishermen and fur traders
 * Became part of Massachusetts
 * New Hampshire
 * 1641 = taken by Massachusetts
 * separated by king in 1677

8. Puritans Versus Indians
 * settlements led to clashes with Indians
 * signed a treaty with pilgrims in 1621
 * wars
 * Pequot
 * King Phillips
 * 9. Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence
 * New England Confederation formed
 * Mostly puritans

9.Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence 10.Andros Promotes The First American Revolution
 * New England Confederation formed
 * Mostly Puritan
 * Dominion of New England
 * Turned into New York and New Jersey
 * Defense against Indians
 * Trade only to English countries
 * Glorious Revolution
 * Dominion fell apart
 * Navigation Laws were weakly enforced

11. Old Netherlands at New Netherlands
 * Dutch Republic
 * East India Company
 * West India Company
 * New Netherlands established

12. Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors
 * New England hostile with Dutch
 * New Sweden colony formed
 * Dutch ends Swedish colony

13. Dutch Residues in New York
 * troubles in New Netherlands
 * half of population is English
 * New Netherlands area is granted to the Duke of York
 * Dutch surrenders

14. Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania
 * Quakers
 * William Penn
 * Gets land grant from King