Studies Weekly - Week 9

Two college-level schools founded in the New England Colonies are ________.

• Harvard and Yale

• Harvard and William & Mary

• Florida and Florida State

• Yale and Salem University

Robert Frost is a famous poet who wrote about life and times in __________.

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• New Jersey

• New England

Who started the New Hampshire Colony as a fishing haven?

• John Mason

• John Winthrop

• Roger Williams

• Anne Hutchinson

The Pilgrims sometimes called themselves __________.

• Puritans

• Separatists

• Laureates

• Migrants

Puritans emphasized __________.

• black clothing, hats and no vehicles

• praying six times daily

• returning to England as soon as possible

• education, moral lives, involvement in government and defense of the colony

The sides fighting in the Pequot War over the fur trade were _________.

• Massachusetts Bay/Powhatan vs. Rhode Island/Abenaki

• Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonists/Narragansett and Mohegan Indians vs. Pequot Indians

• New Hampshire vs. Vermont

• Pequotville vs. Spain/France

Some trades in the New England Colonies were __________.

• wampum banker, poet and weaver

• orange grower, hat maker and rancher

• timber miller, seafarer and fisher

• software designer, judge and baby namer

The people of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were mainly __________.

• Puritan

• Pequot

• Powhatan

• Pennsylvanian

The Fundamental Orders was a constitution based on the __________.

• right to free speech

• right to live in Connecticut

• free consent of the people

• free bread on Sundays

The five original New England Colonies were __________.

• Rhode Island, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York

• Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut

• Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Boston, Salem, New York

• Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Plymouth