9/27/2017

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NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

• Pilgrims and Puritans

• Plymouth Rock: Settlement in 1620

• Mayflower Compact – Fair Laws

RELIGION

• Puritans

• Wanted to reform the Anglican Church

• Thought that bishops and priests had too much power

GEOGRAPHY

• Includes: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire.

• Difficult area to farm unlike the South…why?

ECONOMY

• Built Around: merchants and skilled craftsmen selling things, fishing, shipbuilding

• Harsh climate and rocky soil made farming too difficult

RELATIONSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS

• Samoset – Native American who gave Pilgrims info on the New England Area

• Introduced them to Squanto, who taught them how to survive (farming, wild turkeys)

CLOSURE• Write the answers to the following

questions on your whiteboard…

• Name two of the Southern Colonies

• Name two of the New England Colonies

• Where was it better to farm

• What was the name of the Native American Helper for the Pilgrims?