The ship the Pilgrims traveled on to get to America.
What is the Mayflower?
200
Puritans met here each Sunday.
What is the meeting house?
200
Boys continued to go to school while girls...
Stayed home and learned to sow, cook and weave.
200
What was the name of the new town Roger Williams started in Rhode Island?
What is Providence?
200
In which colony was the first English settlement?
What is Virginia?
300
The contract that the Pilgrims signed saying they would work together, follow a majority rules vote and obey the rules after leaving the ship.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
300
If you did not follow the Puritan beliefs they might force you to...
What is leave town?
300
If you did not memorize your lesson in school what was the punishment?
Have to wear a dunce cap and sit in the corner or you could be whipped.
300
Providence was different than other towns/colonies because it was ruled by the settlers not by _____________________.
members of a religious congregation
300
Name the four New England Colonies.
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire
400
Explain how the Thanksgiving tradition started.
The Pilgrims invited the Indians to a feast to give thanks for all fo their blessings.
400
If you were forced to leave town you might start/join a new colony in...
Rhode Island
400
Only men who belonged to the Puritan congregation could...
vote or own land.
400
Roger Williams believed that ________________ and _________________ should be seperate.
religion and government
400
Name the five Southern Colonies.
South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Georgia
500
Tell two ways that Squanto helped the Pilgrims.
-Showed them where to fish.
-Showed them what nuts and fruit were safe to eat.
-Showed them how to fertilize their soil by burrying a fish.
500
The Puritans mission for coming to America.
That God brought the Puritans to American to be an example to the world of how Christians can live together in a community and not be selfish people who try to grab what they want.
500
The Puritans believed that the ___________________ was not strict enough.
The Church of England
500
Explain and/or give an example of how Roger Williams demonstrated 'tolerance'.
He made sure people were not punished for their beliefs. He worked to keep peace with the Indians and thought they should be paid for their land.
He treated everyone with kindness and respect.
500
What country did most colonists come from to settle in the New England Colonies and name the main reason that this group of colonists left?
England and they wanted religious freedom from the King of England.