C3L2: New England Colonies

During the Great Migration, the major motivation for moving to America was:

• religious freedoms

• wealth

• new job opportunities

• to start a family

These religious groups dissented due to persecution the faced in England:

• Puritans and Separatists

• Catholics and Anglicans

• Jewish and Catholic

• Anglicans and Puritans

The Separatists became known as _______ because they made a religious journey.

• Monks

• Disciples

• Pilgrims

The Pilgrims had a contract with _____ to claim land in Virginia.

• The Mayflower Company

• The Virginia Company

• The King Henry Trust

• The American Way

The Pilgrims were taken off course, and they settled instead in:

• New York, New York

• Plymouth, Cape Cod

• Newark, New Jersey

What important document created a representative government in this region?

• Declaration of Independence

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Virginia Contract

Which colony is NOT in the New England region?

• Massachusetts

• Connecticut

• Vermont

• Rhode Island

The Native Americans most willing to help settlers in Connecticut were:

• Squanto and Samoset

• Pocahontas and Metacomet

• King Philip and King Henry

What did the colonists and Native Americans fight over the most?

• how to prepare crops

• land ownership

• disease

• religion

Dissenters were most welcome in Rhode Island because of Roger Williams beliefs that:

• everyone has a job to do

• all men and women were invited to own land

• the government should not interfere with religion

• there were no rules