| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Puritans and Pilgrams | left England to startnew colonies according to religous beliefs |
| Puritans main goal | build a colony in which everyone lived by the bible |
| Puritans main settlement | was built in what is now called Massachusetts |
| The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | was a written plan of goverment |
| New Hampshire | was founded for its good farmland andfishing grounds |
| New England seasons | summers=short and hot winters=snowyer and colder |
| winters=more snow | England compared to New England |
| questioned Puritan leaders | such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were forced to leave the colony |
| Appalachian mountians | is the mountian range that runs along the western part of New England |
| farming in New England | was difficult because there was rocky soil |
| whale blubber | was used to light the New Englanders oil lamps |
| tirangular trade | were the trade routes that connected New England,Africa, West Indies |
| common | was a grassy area in the center of a New England village |
| town meetings | were used to descuss important dicisions and worship |
| Puritans left England 1630 | came to Mass started a joint stock company King treated them badly because of religon purify the church of England and build a colony according to the bible |
| Puritan religon | was important they spent almost all sunday at church punish you if you didn't worship some N.E.ers had ideas that differed from the Puritans |
| decribed triangular trade | the New Englanders sent rum to Africa who sent slaves and gold to the West Indies so they could harvest the sugar and send more sugar and molasses to New England so they could make more rum |
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