• Started By: William Bradford & Pilgrims (Separatists)-Plymouth/John Winthrop & Puritans settled Massachusetts Bay (Boston)

• Why? Religious Purposes• Year Founded: 1620-Pilgrims/1630-Puritans• Other Information: Pilgrims wrote the Mayflower

Compact – rules for self-government (with religious influence)

• Puritans had little toleration of other religious views

• Started By: Roger Williams (forced out of Massachusetts)

• Why? Seeking Religious Freedom• Year Founded: 1647• Other Information: Practiced religious

tolerance-various faiths– Self-governing– Slave trade

• Started By: Thomas Hooker• Why? Puritans seeking a new settlement

for Religious Purposes• Year Founded: 1639• Other Information: Wrote first Constitution

in America called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Started By: John Wheelright• Why?: Religious Purposes• Year Founded: 1638• Other Information: Founded colony to

worship as they pleased

Economy• Fishing• Lumber• Shipbuilding• Small farms• trade

Climate• Long, cold winters• Rainy

Geography

• Rocky soil, poor for farming• Huge forests-hilly wilderness• Jagged coastline• Forests and sea were helpful

• Typical NE town: well-organized, town meeting house in center of town-town “green”

• Great Migration: 15,000 Puritans leave England for Massachusetts

• Triangular Trade Routes: trade routes that form a triangle to exchange goods between West Indies, The American colonies,& West Africa

• Inhumane part of the trade routes – Middle Passage-shipping slaves across the Atlantic

• Town Meetings were held to discuss the colony – towns were well organized around the town “green”

• Married young, had large families• First Public School started in

Massachusetts • Town Meetings

• Because of the rocky soil and poor climate, people turned to other ways to survive such as fishing, lumber, & shipbuilding.

• Practiced subsistence farming: farming in which only enough food to feed one’s family is produced