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? (a)   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