New England Colonies

Some trades in the New England Colonies were __________.

• wampum banker, poet and weaver
• orange grower, hat maker and rancher
• fishing, shipbuilding, and working in sawmills
• software designer, judge and baby namer

Robert Frost is a famous poet who wrote about life and times in __________.

• Jamestown
• Plymouth
• New Jersey
• New England

The Fundamental Orders was a constitution based on the __________.

• right to free speech
• right to live in Connecticut
• free consent of the people
• free bread on Sundays

Puritans emphasized __________.

• black clothing, hats and no vehicles
• praying six times daily
• returning to England as soon as possible
• education, moral lives, involvement in government and defense of the colony

Two college-level schools founded in the New England Colonies are ________.

• Harvard and Yale
• Harvard and William & Mary
• Florida and Florida State
• Yale and Salem University

What is the difference between a state and a colony?

• Colonies are settlements ruled by another country and states are regions within a country.
• Colonies are larger than states.
• States have more freedom than colonies because of the Revolution.
• States are run by kings and queens and colonies are ruled by governors.

The five original New England Colonies were __________.

• Rhode Island, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York
• Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
• Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Boston, Salem, New York
• Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Plymouth

The Pilgrims sometimes called themselves __________.

• Puritans
• Separatists
• Migrants
• Laureates

Why were Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

• They had different religious ideas than the Puritans and were looking for a place of religious freedom.
• They decided they could use their talents to set up a new colony.
• Huchinson and Williams left Massachusetts Bay to look for Indians to convert to Christianity.
• Hutchinson and Williams were banished because they had too many children to feed.

The sides fighting in the Pequot War over the fur trade were _________.

• Massachusetts Bay/Powhatan vs. Rhode Island/Abenaki
• Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonists/Narragansett and Mohegan Indians vs. Pequot Indians
• New Hampshire vs. Vermont
• Pequotville vs. Spain/France