Life in the New England Colonies- Kid's Discover

What were winters like in the New England colonies?

• warm & sunny

• rainy

• long & cold

• windy

Villages in New England were built around a shared open space called a _____________.

• living room

• town square

• court

• common

Defining features of life in the New England colonies included ________________.

• town halls and civic engagement

• being part of a choir

• owning a business

What was included in the duties of women in the New England colonies?

• helping on the farm

• sewing & mending clothes

• cooking

• all of the above

What were the most important industries in the New England Colonies?

• farming & logging

• whaling, shipbuilding, fishing

• whaling & farming

• shipbuilding

Merchant ships traveled back and forth across the Atlantic in a pattern called __________________to get people and goods to and from the colonies.

• triangular trade routes

• trade routes

• trade paths

• square trade routes

What products did the New England colonies send back to Europe?

• sugar

• tabacco & rice

• whale oil, furs, and lumber

• sugar & tea

What kind of school did the Puritan boys often go to that the girls did not? _________________ school

(you must spell it correctly or it will be counted wrong)

When a Native American tribe resisted the expansion of Puritan colonies into Connecticut, this resistance turned into the which war?

• American Indian War

• Pequot War of 1637

• Mohegan War of 1637

• Civil War

Which Native American group sided with the colonists in the Pequot War of 1637?

• Mohegan

• Cherokee

• Pequot

• Seminole