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Started By: Roger Williams (forced out of Massachusetts) Why? Seeking Religious Freedom Year Founded: 1647 Other Information: Practiced religious tolerance-various faiths –Self-governing –Slave tradeTRANSCRIPT
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• Started By: William Bradford & Pilgrims (Separatists)-Plymouth/John Winthrop & Puritans settled Massachusetts Bay (Boston)
• Why? Religious Purposes• Year Founded: 1620-Pilgrims/1630-Puritans• Other Information: Pilgrims wrote the Mayflower
Compact – rules for self-government (with religious influence)
• Puritans had little toleration of other religious views
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• Started By: Roger Williams (forced out of Massachusetts)
• Why? Seeking Religious Freedom• Year Founded: 1647• Other Information: Practiced religious
tolerance-various faiths– Self-governing– Slave trade
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• Started By: Thomas Hooker• Why? Puritans seeking a new settlement
for Religious Purposes• Year Founded: 1639• Other Information: Wrote first Constitution
in America called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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• Started By: John Wheelright• Why?: Religious Purposes• Year Founded: 1638• Other Information: Founded colony to
worship as they pleased
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Economy• Fishing• Lumber• Shipbuilding• Small farms• trade
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Climate• Long, cold winters• Rainy
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Geography
• Rocky soil, poor for farming• Huge forests-hilly wilderness• Jagged coastline• Forests and sea were helpful
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• Typical NE town: well-organized, town meeting house in center of town-town “green”
• Great Migration: 15,000 Puritans leave England for Massachusetts
• Triangular Trade Routes: trade routes that form a triangle to exchange goods between West Indies, The American colonies,& West Africa
• Inhumane part of the trade routes – Middle Passage-shipping slaves across the Atlantic
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• Town Meetings were held to discuss the colony – towns were well organized around the town “green”
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• Married young, had large families• First Public School started in
Massachusetts • Town Meetings
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• Because of the rocky soil and poor climate, people turned to other ways to survive such as fishing, lumber, & shipbuilding.
• Practiced subsistence farming: farming in which only enough food to feed one’s family is produced