Grew in an orderly manner, chartered legally, consisted of a meeting house used for worship and town hall, a village green where military could drill, and several parcels of land of each family (one wood, crops, and animal)
Puritans
They were being pressed onto outlying farms, the religious zeal fades, conversions decline, doors become open to all, and it was made up of mostly women.
Salem Witch Trails
began with a group of young girls claiming that they had been bewitched, Twenty individauls were hunted down (19 hanged, while other pressed to death), accused were mostly upper class girls, and stopped when the governor's wife was accused.
Soil shape People
back-bending toil put a premium on industry, no one wanted to come to New England because it was stoney, summers were hot, winters were cold, and helped staple crops like tobacco
People shape the Soil
Indians form their own trails due to hunting and fishing, they burned their trees to restore first-growth forests for deer population, English cleared woodland for pasturages, tillage, building roads, and forming settlements, and animals brought to America caused more woodlands to be cleared and erosion and flooding.
Life in New England
americans lived in affluent abundance
those who immigrated were not poor except indentured slaves
frontier life did not allow for class distinctions
Mass prohibit poor from wearing gold
alot of equality and democracy especially in whites
