New England Colonies

He led a group of Puritans to settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  They named their settlement Boston.

• John Winthrop
• Roger Williams
• John Bradford
• John Smith

Who founded Rhode Island?

• William Penn
• Duke of York
• Roger Williams
• Thomas Hooker

In general, why were MOST of the New England colonies founded?

• make money
• better soil
• economic opportunity
• religious freedoms

What is  a Puritan??

• Someone who wants to leave and set up their own churches
• Someone who wants to leave the Anglican Church the way it is
• Someone that wants to reform the Anglican Church

In general, why were MOST of the New England colonies founded?

• make money
• better soil
• economic opportunity
• religious freedoms

What was the document that the men signed aboard the ship in the New World which intended to be an agreement for a democratic set of laws?

• The Jamestown Compact
• The Mayflower Compact
• The Jamestown Agreement
• The Mayflower Agreement

The Outline for the government that would exists in Connecticut.

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Mayflower Compact

• New England's Economic Focus

• The Constitution

A group of separatists that left England to escape religious persecution

• Separatists

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

Protestants that lived in England, left Europe and came to start a new colony in North America.

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Separatists

• Quakers

Founder of Connecticut.  Left Massachusetts Bay Colony because he believed the government was too powerful.

• Thomas Hooker
• Cotton Mather
• John Eliot
• Metacomet