AUTHOR'S USE OF REASONS AND EVIDENCE

The Puritans were the first colonists to come to New England. Across the ocean in England, everyone had to practice the religion of the Church of England. The Puritans were unhappy with this church, and they wanted to change it and practice their religion differently. The King of England was in charge of the church and the government. If the Puritans didn’t obey the church, they would have been in danger. In 1630, about 1,000 Puritans set sail for America, looking for a place where they could have religious freedom. They set up the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which included parts of other present-day states like Maine.

Based on the passage, what does it mean if people have religious freedom?

• They are in charge of both the church and the government in their country.

• They can practice their religion the way they want without danger.

• They get in trouble for practicing their religion the way they want.

• They set sail across the ocean and set up a colony

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se the text below to answer the question.Winters in New England were cold and harsh, and the soil was rocky. Because of the harsh climate and difficult growing conditions, farmers in New England couldn’t grow enough crops to sell for money. However, the New England colonies were covered in forests, and the water off the coast was full of fish. So instead, colonists fished and hunted whales. They used the lumber from the trees to build ships. New England became a major center for trading, buying and selling products. In the port city of Boston, ships came and left carrying goods. The New England colonies sold goods to the other colony regions and to England.

According to the passage, farming didn’t become the main way of making money in the New England colonies because

• farming is not possible in port cities.

• people were too busy building ships.

• the climate was too harsh

• there was too much lumber.

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A slave is someone who is owned by another person and forced to work for them for no pay. During colonial times, Europeans and Americans kidnapped people from Africa. They forced these people to work as slaves in the colonies. In the New England colonies, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island had the most slaves. Slaves in New England were owned mostly by ministers, doctors and merchants, people who were involved in trade. They worked in houses and did other skilled jobs like shipbuilding. Not all black people in New England were enslaved. Some won their freedom by serving their masters for a certain number of years. However, free blacks still had a lower status than white people.

According to the passage, slaves in the New England colonies

• were allowed to return to Africa.

• all lived in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

• worked as ministers, doctors and merchants.

• were not paid for the work they did

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