New England Colonies

History refers to them as Pilgrims, but they were known as Separatists because they wanted to move on from the Church of England to have

• better economic opportunities

• religious freedom

• free land

• freedom to protest

The Mayflower Compact was a form of

• religious freedom

• self-government

• land ownership

• empowerment by the King

The Separatists landed off course of northern Virginia in an area they called

• Jamestown

• Boston

• Plymouth

• Salem

Thousands of Puritans came to America to flee religious persecution in what is known in history as the

• First Amendment

• Mayflower Compact

• Great Migration

• Great Liberation

As many as 90% of all people living in the New England Colonies were capable of reading the Bible because

• they were English subjects

• they were forced by King James

• they were trying to get into Harvard

• they were literate

Roger Williams started this colony because he believed in a non-state run church

• Rhode Island

• Manhattan

• New Hampshire

• Connecticut

King Phillip's War was fought between many Native tribes and the Puritans over

• fishing rights

• self-government

• land ownership

• religious freedom

Two main sources of employment in New England were

• whaling and plantation ownership

• factory work and merchants

• fishing and cash crops

• whaling and fishing

Farming in New England was generally made up of

• subsistence farms

• large plantations

• cash crop farms

• individual small gardens

The course of the Slave Trade Route that came from Africa and went to America was known as the

• Triangular Trade

• Inward Course

• African Route

• Middle Passage