Target Practice for New England Colonies

1. • 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

2. *
*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

3. *
*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

4. *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

6. *
*Great Migration
*Between 1629-1640
*15,000 journeyed from
England to
Massachusetts.
*By 1670’s
*Nearly 45,000 settlers
living in New England

7. *
*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

8. *
* 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

9. *
*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

10. * • 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

11. *Pequot War