New England Colonies

2 massachusetts settlements

Plymouth(indian tribe), landed 190 miles north due to storm and Massachusetts Bay(large hill)

Massachusetts Founders

William Bradford/pilgrims and John Winthrop/puritans

massachusetts economy and occupations

crop and livestock farming, lumber, shops, shipping

massachusetts daily life

fur trade, Agriculture- fishing farming corn, livestock, manufacturing- lumbering, shipbuilding, shipping, harsh winters warm summers

massachusetts religion

puritan

massachusetts education

Squanto(pantuxet tribe)- helped the plant corn beans and pumpkins

puritan

people who wanted to purify the english church, puritans wanted to simplify the churches cereemoniesand its ranks of authority

massachusetts laws and govt

Mayflower Compact- first set of written laws written in the new world by europeans, guided by rules of the b ible

massachusetts misc

1st thanksgiving- fall of 1621(lasted 3 days), founded for religious freedoms

massechusetts founded in

1620 and 1630

connecticut settlements

hartford and new haven

connecticut founded in

1636

connecticut Founder

Thomas Hooker- puritan minister, but didn’t agree with puritan beliefs

Squatter

somebody that stays on your land , and come to the new world find territory and put all belongings there and basically just squat there

Connecticut economy/occupations

Farming(crops and livestock), shipbuilding, fishing whaling, engaged in farming and some manufacturing in small towns

connecticut religion

puritans, protestants and catholics

connecticut govt/laws

fundamental orders of connecticut, second set of laws, first constitution

connecticut misc

1639 set of laws, religious freedom which allowed roman catholics and protestants, unique, agriculture-fishing, wheat, corn

New Hampshire settlement

exeter

New Hampshire founded in

1623, MA annexed both the land for maine and new hampshire

New Hampshire founders

John Mason

New Hampshire laws/govt

exeter compact- set of laws originally part of MA

new hampshire misc

created for fishing and fur trade, agriculture-potatoes and fishing, manufacturing-textile, ship building

Rhode Island settlement

providence plantations

rhode island was founded in

1636

rhode island founders

rodger williams and anne hutchinson, both banished from MA for not following puritan beleif

rhode island daily life

hot humid summers cold snowy winters, farming,lumber, shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, trade, lower class

rhode island economy and occupations

shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, trade

rhode island religion

various faiths, became refuge from strict practices of the puritan faith

rhode island govt/laws

Freedom of religion had right to protest

rhode island misc

thought government shouldnt force people in a certain way

was a center of slave trade and other colonies were disgusted so they called rhode island the sewer of new england