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1
Which colonies made up the New England Colonies?
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
2
New England is in the ____________________ part of the United States.
Northwest
Southwest
Southeast
Northeast
3
Which New England colony was a proprietary colony?
Massachusetts Bay
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
4
What is a colony?
the same thing as a state
where bees live
settlement far from home country, but ruled by home country
a person who travels to a new place
5
Which was the largest group of people living in New England?
enslaved people
Native Americans
indentured servants
families
6
If you were a kid living in New England
all of the above
you could not speak until spoken to
you would be working from sun up to sun down
you could not sit at the table when you ate dinner
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What were the main reasons people settled in the New England Colonies?
religious tolerance, cheap land
religious freedom, king wanted more land
religious tolerance, slavery, grow cash crops
to find the Fountain of Youth
8
What types of trades were common in the New England Colonies?
huge farms, shipbuilding
cash crops, artisans,
whaling, fishing, shipbuilding
Large plantations
9
Puritans and Separatists were very strict and did NOT believe in freedom of religion for everyone.
true
false
10
people who left England to separate themselves from the Church of England-
Separatists
Strangers-Adventurers
indentured servants
11
In 1700, there were NO enslaved people living in New England.
False
True
12
Rhode Island and Connecticut were settled as charter colonies in
1776
1363
1636
1936
13
Education was important to New England settlers.
False
True
14
A poor person who agrees to work for someone to repay their passage to the New World
an enslaved person
indentured servant
a craftsman
15
The Mayflower Compact was written ___________
to buy the Patuxet village from the native people
to agree on a place to have Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag nation
to prevent the Mayflower from sinking
as an agreement between Separatists and Strangers in Plymouth
16
What type of government did the people of the New England Colonies use to establish laws?
they voted on leaders to make decisions for them
town meeting, direct democracy, Mayflower Compact
dictatorship
town meeting, House of Burgesses
17
What was the geography like in the New England Colonies?
dense forests, poor rocky soil, good harbors
rich fertile soil, navigable rivers
flat plains, rocky soil, tall grass
fertile soil, flat plains, good waterways
18
Challenge
- the Mayflower Compact
was a really good book.
was signed by men on the Mayflower.
the first self-government document in the US.
was signed by men and women on the Mayflower
19
What were some of the crops or products produced in the New England Colonies?
wheat, corn, oats, barley, livestock,
tobacco, wheat, corn, rice, cotton, indigo
cotton, lumber, fur, rice
fish, lumber, fur, whale oil
20
Why was the Connecticut colony founded?
Get gold for England.
To get more land for England
Religious Freedom
Provide a home for native Americans.
21
Who was the Massachusetts Bay Company founded by?
Quakers
Wampanoag
French
Puritans
22
Which of the following describes the general climate of the New England Colonies?
Long cold winters, mild short summers
mild weather, plenty of rain
cold winters, hot long summers
mild winters, mild summers,
