The New England colonies states were Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. The New England colonies were settled by the Puritans, who came to American searching for freedom of religions from the persecution in England. They were self-governed because they believed more in religion. “Seventeenth-century New England was governed by the Puritans for Puritanism” (Roark 76). The man and woman were separated along with separation from each other race. Slavery was allowed, but there were few people that owned slaves because of the land it was “Rocky soil of New England did not permit the type of farming that was done in other regions. For the first ten years, the colonists were forced to trade with the Indians for animal pelts
