• Targets

• I can...

• I can explain important events and patterns of settlement (landform issues, religious issues)

• Relations with Native Americans(Pequot/King Phillip’s War)

• I can explain how they used their resources to make money (farming, shipping, manufacturing)

• I can explain the development of government

*New England Colonies

*Vocabulary & Links

*Puritans

*General Court

*Religious tolerance

*Sabbath

*Town meeting

*John Winthrop

*Roger Williams

*Pequot

* Learn

* Mr. Nussbaum - 13 Colonies Maps, Regions, Information

* 13 Colonies Chart

* 13 Colonies Timeline and Events

* Colonial Life

* Daily Life in the Colonies

* Colonial Times in America

* Colonial America

* Colonial Williamsburg

* Triangular Trade Routes Interactive Map

* The 13 Colonies Interactive Map

* Colonial Life (.pdf)

*Practice

*Online flash cards

*Quiz yourself

*More quizzes

* Study Stack

*Why did England come to New

World?

*Gain Land

*Religion

*Gain work

*Resources:

*Wanted more GOLD!

* Surplus of population in England

*All land hereditary, if your father didn’t have land, you didn’t have land

*New England Colonies

*Location in North America

*Massachusetts

*Rhode Island

*New Hampshire

*Maine

*Connecticut

*Their religion was Puritan

*Very private and modest people

*Hard working

*Colony Numbers

*Great Migration

*Between 1629-1640

*15,000 journeyed from England to Massachusetts.

*By 1670’s

*Nearly 45,000 settlers living in New England

*Government

*Political leaders were the Church leaders, no separation

*Roger Williams

* John Winthrop

*Puritan leaders did not like their religious beliefs to be questioned or how they governed

*Most colonists who disagreed were asked to leave the colony

*Voted on

*What roads to build?

*How much schoolmaster should be paid?

*Gave a chance to speak their mind

*Strict laws about 15 crimes carried the death penalty

*Governing the Colony

* Massachusetts Bay Company

* Only stockholders who had invested money could vote

* Most settlers had no say in government

* Then all male church members were granted right to vote

* Connecticut

* Thomas Hooker

* Rhode Island* Roger Williams

* Religious tolerance- a willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

*Life in New England Towns

and Villages

*Believed that people should worship and tend to local matters as community

*Center of town

*common (open field where cattle grazed)

*Meeting House

*House of worship

*Held town meetings

*Sabbath- holy day of rest

*On Sundays

*No playing, visiting taverns etc

*All citizens required to attend church all day!

*Men sat on one side, women on the other

*Children separate

*African Americans, Indians stood in the balcony

*Economy • Poor soil; hard, rocky,

• Native Americans taught them how to grow

• Indian corn, pumpkins, squash, and beans.

• Forest full of riches

• Lumber ship/house building

• Hunting turkey and deer

*Pequot War