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19 Cards in this Set
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the main reason the Puritans started the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
to live according to their religious beliefs |
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led the Puritans from England to Massachusetts Bay in 1630 |
John Winthrop |
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expel |
to force someone to leave a place |
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economic reason most people first settle in the Connecticut River valley |
fertile land to farm |
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major issue that caused King Philip's War |
colonists and the Native Americans did not agree about ownership of land |
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main purpose of town meetings in the New England Colonies |
to take care of town government |
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How did the New England Colonies have representative governments? |
colonists elected leaders |
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an important industry for the economy of the New England Colonies |
shipbuilding |
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three places that connected the triangular trade routes |
England, the English colonies, and Africa |
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leader of the Wampanoag who tried to unite the Native Americans against the colonists |
Metacomet |
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founded the settlement of Hartford |
Thomas Hooker |
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leader who was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and later founded Providence |
Roger Williams |
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led the second group of Puritans to New England in search of religious freedom |
John Winthrop |
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led followers to an island near Providence after being expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
Anne Hutchinson |
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How are the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Bay Colony different? |
RI allowed religious freedom and was founded later than the MBC, south of MBC MBC - only Puritans settled there, founded earlier than RI Colony, north of MBC |
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How did early slave trade affect both Africans and English colonists? |
People from Africa were taken and made slaves, suffered, and many died on ships. Some colonists eventually formed groups that tried to end slavery. |
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Puritans tried to make their settlement in the MBC a "City upon a hill" by doing 3 things |
1. example of Christian living 2. struct rules and punishment 3. long church services |
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responsibilities of colonial children in New England |
girls - prepare food, make clothing, soap, candles, and brushes boys - work in fields, hunt, make tools, raise animals both - go to school to learn to read the Bible |
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The people in the New England Colonies belonged to a free-market economic system because they were |
free to compete in business and able to set their own prices for goods and services |
