CH3 – Settling the Northern Colonies

Time Frame: 1619-1700

Objectives: At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

Describe the Puritans and their beliefs, and explain why they left England for the New World.
Explain how the Puritans’ theology shaped the government and society of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Explain how Massachusetts Bay’s conflict with religious dissenters, as well as new economic opportunities, led to the expansion of New England into Rhode Island, Connecticut, and elsewhere.
Describe the conflict between colonists and Indians in New England and the effects of King Philip’s War.
Summarize early New England attempts at intercolonial unity and the consequences of England’s Glorious Revolution in America.
Describe the founding of New York and Pennsylvania, and explain why these two settlements as well as the other middle colonies became so ethnically, religiously, and politically diverse.
Describe the central features of the middle colonies, and explain how they differed from New England and the southern colonies.

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