vocabulary
Rivers from higher land flow to lower lands and often form waterfalls at this.
What is the fall line?
The states belonging to the Southern colonies.
What is Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia?
A dissenter who wanted more religious freedom and believed that the government should not make laws about religion. He was banished from Massachusetts because of his views.
Who is Roger Williams?
The shipping routes between North America, Europe and Africa formed this.
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
This natural feature made the middle colonies good for farming.
What are fertile soil and rivers?
A Puritan dissenter who critized Puritan ministers and held her own meetings in her home to talk about religion. Puritan leaders said her beliefs were against Puritan teachings and that women sould not teach mean about religion. She was banished and moved to Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
During the 1700s churches were not as influential as they had been and not many people were going. This changed when young, exciting ministers began speaking throughout the colonies. New churches with new ideas developed throughout the colonies, and many people joined these new Protestant groups during a time known as this.
What was the Great Awakening?
The time of year when it is warm enough for plants to grow.
What is a growing season?
This made farming difficult in the New England colonies?
What is rocky and sandy land?
A minister who did not like some of the rules made by Puritan leaders. He wanted to form a new community where all men could vote, even if they were not church members. He led 100 colonists west to the Connecitcut River and founded the town of Hartford.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
New England families were large and children had to do this type of work to help their families.
What is work in fields, weave, preserve food, cook?
The voyage from Africa to the West Indies that carried enslaved people.
What was the Middle Passage?
These natural resources were found in the New England colonies and help build industries.
What is wood from the forests and fish and whales from the ocean?
Many colonists were starting new colonies where Native Americans already lived. In the 1630s, this war broke out because of this, which killed many Native Americans and led to more colonists moving into Native American land.
What was the Pequot War?
There voting rules were established in Connecticut and Massachusetts and were different.
What is only male church members could vote in Massachusetts and all men could vote in Connecticut?
In 1675, Metacomet led the Wamponoag in this war against the colonies. The Wampanoag lost and were enslaved or forced to leave.
What was King Philip's War?