Post on 16-Nov-2014
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• 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