Lesson 2.3 New England Colonies

What was at the center of New England towns?

• fort

• hospital

• town meeting house

• statues

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

• disease

• land ownership

• politics

• King George

Why were the New England colonies founded?

• The colonists were looking for religious freedom

• The land was great for farming

• There were better jobs in the colonies

• It's where the explorers landed, so that's where they built the colony

What would happen if you didn't follow the rules in the New England colonies?

• You would be given a warning before receiving a consequence

• You would be strictly punished or possibly kicked out of the colony

• Other colonists would make fun of you

• You were sent back to England

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Powhatans

• Quakers

Group of English Protestants who wanted to break away from the Church of England. They established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Powhatans

• Quakers

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. The set of rules was signed by the 41 Pilgrim men and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• New England Primer

• Great Migration

Economy of the New England colonies

• Reliance upon slaves and cash crops.

• Shipbuilding, fishing, lumber, manufacturing. Few slaves.

• Reliance upon slaves and staple crops.

The Pilgrims survived at Plymouth due to the help of...

• John Cena

• King James II

• Captain John Smith

• Squanto and Samoset

Name the New England Colonies:

• New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware

• Virginia, Maryland

• Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut

• North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia