Colonial People
The group of people who came to Massachusetts on the Mayflower and wanted religious freedom from England.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The four New England colonies.
What are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
Where the colonists were intending on landing before arriving in Massachusetts.
What is Virginia?
Founder and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
Colonists who did not follow Puritan rules were sent here.
What are the town stocks?
The people who left England because they wanted the Church of England to be more pure.
Who are the Puritans?
The year long conflict between colonists and Native Americans that resulted in New England's expansion.
What is King Philip's War?
In order to survive New England winters, colonists had to dry out and store this.
What are fruit and vegetables?
The founder of the Providence settlement.
Who is Roger Williams?
These were set up by the colonists so that indigenous peoples could practice Christianity.
What are praying towns?
A minister from Salem who was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because he had "new and dangerous opinions."
Who is Roger Williams?
The New England colony with the best farmland.
What is Connecticut?
This group had conflict with the Connecticut colony over land.
Who are the Pequot tribe?
He left Massachusetts Bay Colony because he thought a colonies government should be based on what the people wanted. He founded the settlement of Hartford in the Connecticut colony.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
People used this to buy goods and services from others.
What is the barter system?
The contract Pilgrims wrote agreeing to only create just and equal laws once in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He founded the first fishing settlement in New Hampshire, in what is now called Portsmouth.
Who is David Thompson?
The Puritan leader who was also a governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
Two of the challenges faced by the New England settlers.
What are the lack of a cash crop, the cold weather, the lack of gold and silver, and the lack of preparedness.
The true name of the Wampanoag leader, one of the many Native American tribes that lived here long before the colonists.
Who is Metacomet?