Module 3 Lesson 2: The New England Colonies

Write the bolded words/statements in your notes.

• Flat by the coastline

• Hills and mountains inland

• Harsh climate

  • Brutally cold winters

  • Warm, mild summers

• Rocky, hard soil

  • Not ideal for farming
    

Write the bolded words/statements in your notes.

• Fled England during the Great Migration because of religious persecution

• John Winthrop led a group to Massachusetts believing they made covenant with God to create an ideal Christian community: Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Wanted to purify, or reform, the Anglican (Protestant) church

• Thought that bishops and priests had too much power

• Very religious

• Worked with Native American Squanto

  • learned to fertilize the soil with fish remains

  • First thanksgiving

• Created schools - had to attend

• Separatist group that left England due to religious persecution

• Landed in Plymouth Rock

• Strong community

Write the bolded words/statements in your notes.

• Set up court system to send representatives

• Government leaders were church officials

  • Male church members were the only ones who could vote

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

  • made males who were not church members able to vote

• Pilgrims on the Mayflower voyage signed

• legal contract to have fair laws to protect the general good

Mayflower Compact

Write the bolded words/statements in your notes.

• Shipbuilding

  • plenty of forest for materials

  • As slave trade grew, needed more ships

• Skilled Craftspeople

  • Apprenticeships

  • learned trades vital to colonies

• Merchants

  • grew powerful and wealthy

  • leading members of colonies

• Fishing

  • leading industry

  • Hunted whales too