John Winthrop

Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled in 1630 by a group of Puritans from England under the leadership of Governor John Winthrop. While the company was intended to transfer the wealth of the New World to stockholders in England, the settlers themselves transferred the charter to Massachusetts.

In 1630, John Winthrop and 800 Puritans arrived to Boston and created the Massachusetts Bay Colony because Winthrop believed it was a “calling from god” and wanted to convert the native population to Christianity. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the first English settlements to have been created in New England.

The ideas of religious freedom and fair dealings with the Native Americans resulted in Roger Williams’ exile from the Massachusetts colony. Massachusetts Puritans believed they had the one true faith; therefore such talk was intolerable.

Early Colonial era. Because the Spanish were the first Europeans to establish settlements on the mainland of North America, such as St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, the earliest Christians in the territory which would eventually become the United States were Roman Catholics.

What role did the church play in Massachusetts? They provided rights to men and women. what they can work can’t do. People would be very active and involve.

Rhode Island became the first colony with no established church and the first to grant religious freedom to everyone, including Quakers and Jews.

Religion & Liberty. By the dawn of the American Revolution, the concept of religious toleration in the colonies was no longer a fringe belief. The thirteen colonies were a religiously diverse bunch, including Anglicans, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, Catholics, Jews, and many more.

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3 Colonies That Supported Religious Freedom: Dissidents, Catholics, and Quakers. The Massachusetts and Jamestown colonies were only the beginning. Throughout the rest of the 17th century, English settlers of all kinds moved to America.

The New York Colony was not dominated by a specific religion and residents were free to worship as they chose. There were Catholics, Jews, Lutherans, and Quakers among others. Natural resources in the New York Colony included agricultural land, coal, furs, forestry (timber), and iron ore.

Farm land was both productive and much less expensive than in Europe. Later settlers included members of various Protestant denominations, which were protected in the Middle Colonies by written freedom of religion laws. This tolerance was very unusual and distinct from the situation in other British colonies.

Southern Colonies Religion The Southern Colonies were not dominated by a single religion which gave way to more liberal attitudes and some religious freedom. There were predominantly Anglicans and Baptists in the Southern region and Colonies.

It had diverse religious beliefs and practices to the colony. Maryland was establish as a safe haven for Catholics, but policy of separation of church and state and the stance on religious freedom made the religious base of Maryland diverse.

The Southern colonies were almost exclusively Anglican (Church of England) because they were English colonies. These churches were supported by the state through taxation. Other denominations had to ask permission to form churches, and their financial support was provided through the people who were members.

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The New England colonies had very harsh winters and mild summers. This made the growing season only about five months long. Because the soil was rocky and the climate was often harsh, colonists in New England only farmed enough to feed their families. Some of these crops included corn, beans, and squash.

The Puritan culture of the New England colonies of the seventeenth century was influenced by Calvinist theology, which believed in a “just, almighty God,” and a lifestyle of pious, consecrated actions. The Puritans participated in their own forms of recreational activity, including visual arts, literature, and music.

New England is home to some of the greatest traditions, institutions, and historical events the US has to offer and no other part of the country has a wide variety of terrain like New England – which has mountain ranges, forests, islands, and beaches.

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The middle colonies were made up of the colonies of New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The middle colonies had deep, rich soil. The fertile soil was good for farming. These colonies had mild winters and warm summers.

The Middle Colonies flourished economically due to fertile soil, broad navigable rivers, and abundant forests. The Middle Colonies were the most ethnically and religiously diverse of the British colonies in North America, with settlers coming from all parts of Europe and a high degree of religious tolerance.

The Origins of American Slavery Most of those enslaved in the North did not live in large communities, as they did in the mid-Atlantic colonies and the South. Those Southern economies depended upon people enslaved at plantations to provide labor and keep the massive tobacco and rice farms running.

Logging, shipbuilding, textiles production, and papermaking were also important in the Middle Colonies.

Specialization and Interdependence depended on the Mid-Atlantic colonies for livestock and grains. depended on the Southern colonies for tobacco, rice, indigo, and forest products. traded with the New England colonies for metal tools and equipment.

Planters embraced the use of slaves mainly because indentured labor became expensive. Some indentured servants were also leaving to start their own farms as land was widely available. Colonists tried to use Native Americans for labor, but they were susceptible to European diseases and died in large numbers.