Lecture 7 - Colonial America

The 13 Colonies

Southern
Virginia (1607)
North Carolina (1653)
South Carolina (1662)
Georgia (1731)


Middle

New York (1628)
Maryland (1633)
Delaware (1638)
New Jersey (1664)
Pennsylvania (1681)

Northern
Massachusetts (1620) (Plymouth by Pilgrims in 1620; Boston by Puritans in 1630)
Connecticut (1636)
Rhode Island (1636)
New Hampshire (1639)



1675 - King Philip's War
Massasoit - Christian
“Metacomet” - King Phillip (Massasoit's son)
The Wampanoag Tribe - friendly with the Pilgrims during Massasoit's reign (for 50 years). 

“hand of God” - Providential view of history

King Philip killed some indians from the Mohawks tribe to incite all the tribes to rally against the Colonists.  King Philip delivered the dead indians to the Mohawks, saying that it was the colonists that did it.  However one Mohawk saw the Wampanoags kill the Mohawks, so the Mohawks did not join the Wampanoags.  The colonists fought against the Wampanoag tribe.  This was the defeat of the relationship the colonists had with the indians.  This event is significant because later the US will conflict with the Indians in 1700s (i.e. French & Indian War) as US expands westward.  

1690 - Witch Trials (The battle between evil and good in the colonies)
Salem, Massachusetts
Hundreds of women claiming to have visions of Satan, however this was mostly done in Europe.  Hundreds of women were killed in Europe
Mather brothers in Massachusetts came out saying we should not kill the women as they were doing in Europe
Hundreds killed in Europe, only in the 20s in America (mostly done in Europe and the colonies got the “spill over”).
It was the Christians that stopped the witch trials.



 
One great change during this Colonial period was the migration of people.  When colonists first coming, they were mostly Christian (not even Catholics).  Now there is a whole lot of different people.  Don’t lump together what the Christians were doing in early 1620s to what was happening at the end of 1600s.