I. First Colonists

        English found Plymouth (1620)

Puritans

                        “City on a Hill” - Separatists vs. reformers

II. Why did they leave Europe?

            Political, religious reasons

            40% criminals

III. Living Conditions

Economy

Social patterns

IV. “Good fences make good neighbors”

            League of the Iroquois (founded 1500s)

            Pequot War      (1637)

Metacom’s War (King Phillip’s war) (1675-6)

V. Beyond Massachusetts

Quebec founded by French (1608)

New Amsterdam (1624)

Rhode Island founded (1636)

Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer and Quakers.

New Sweden

Pennsylvania founded (1681)

William Penn

Black Robes

New England Immigration, 1600s

Metacom's (King Phillip's) War, 1676

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