Glossary Term – Place
Plymouth
Plymouth was founded in 1620 by Pilgrims (Separatists and Anglicans) who had fled England in search of religious freedom.
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Glossary Term – Place
Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled in 1630 by a group of English Puritans who left England to escape religious persecution. The Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony established a strict theocratic government. In 1684 the Crown, concerned about colony’s growing independence, annulled the colony’s charter and created a royal government under a new charter in 1691.
Primary Source
William Penn on the “Well-Governing of My Family,” ca. 1700
Primary Source
George Washington on attending church, 1762
Primary Source
Cotton Mather’s Account of the Witch Trials, 1693
Primary Source
A revival of religious fervor, 1744
Recommended Resource
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Recommended Resource
From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765
Bushman, Richard L. From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Recommended Resource
Inventing the "Great Awakening"
Lambert, Frank. Inventing the “Great Awakening.” Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.