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Chapter 3
 * Religion in the North, riches from tobacco in the south
 * Martin Luther’s protestant reformation led to the founding of America.
 * Puritans who were unhappy with the rate of growth in the Protestant reformation in England, settled New England.
 * A group of Puritans left for Holland, fleeing from England, and then to stay true to their roots, went to New England on Mayflower.
 * Before disembarking, the Mayflower compact was signed.
 * Pilgrims first winter, 44 of 102 people died.
 * 1621 0 one year later, the pilgrims were successful with harvest and religion.
 * William Bradford, scholar in 6 languages, elected governor 30 times.
 * Plymouth never grew significantly, 7,000 by 1691. Merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony.
 * 1630: Nearly 1,000 immigrants came to Massachusetts by Massachusetts Bay Company.
 * Overall, 70,000 refugees fled Europe to America.
 * John Winthrop became governor of Bay Colony.
 * Government in the Bay Colony was not democratic.
 * Anne Hutchinson banished from Puritan Land.
 * Roger Williams wanted his colony to break away from England’s Church.
 * Williams fled to Rhode Island in 1636 and built the first Baptist Church. He set up complete religious freedom, and sheltered Quakers.
 * Hartford, Connecticut founded in 1635. Connecticut proved to be fertile and full of exploration.
 * New Haven founded in 1638: Bustling Seaport
 * Maine was active with fishermen, a dozen years before Plymouth.
 * New Hampshire became part of the Bay Colony in 1641, separated in 1679
 * In 1675, Pan Tribal Indians attacked 52 Puritan towns.
 * New England Confederation formed in 1643. This defended against Indians, French, Dutch, and intercolonial crimes.
 * England paid little attention to colonies/New England because it had it’s own problems.
 * When Charles II was restored to throne, he played an aggressive role in the colonies.
 * Connecticut was given a charter, then Rhode Island. Then the Bay colony was revoked.
 * New Dominion of New England, headed by Sir Edmund Andros
 * Revolution in Old England encouraged New England to revolt. Andros was shipped back to England.
 * In 1691, Massachusetts made royal colony with new Charter and governor.
 * Dutch fought England by ships. Big colonial power in the East Indies.
 * Dutch East India Company – 10,000 men and 190 ships
 * Henry Hudson – 1609 up Hudson River and Bay
 * Dutch West India posted in Brazil and New Netherland in 1623-24 on Hudson River (Became New York City).
 * Swedes came to America, causing disrupt.
 * English conquered New Netherlands – New York
 * William Penn, a Quaker, received land as an asylum to Quakers which is now Pennsylvania (1681)
 * Indian Relations were so good in Quakers land.
 * Philadelphia prospered past Virginia and Massachusetts by 1700.
 * Other Quakers settled in New Jersey, founded in 1664.
 * New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York – Bread colonies
 * Mid colonies proved to be most American.
 * Ben Franklin born in Boston came to Philly in 1720 at 17 years old.
 * By 1720, colonies were really “coming alive” and working together well without England