3.2 - New England Colonies

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Powhatans

• Quakers

Group of English Protestants who wanted to break away from the Church of England. They established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Powhatans

• Quakers

A Wampanoag man that helped facilitate peace and farming for the colonists in New England

• Pocahontas

• Powhatan

• Squanto

• Sacajawea

Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• West Indies

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. The set of rules was signed by the 41 Pilgrim men and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• New England Primer

• Great Migration

The first written Constitution in America, it allowed male non-church members to vote. It described established the structure and powers of the the government set up by towns in this colony.

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• New England Primer

• Declaration of Independence

A Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony known for Speaker of "City upon a Hill" sermon.

• William Bradford

• John Winthrop

• John Smith

• Anne Hutchinson

Schoolbook used by the New England Colonists to teach reading and writing through Bible stories

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Mayflower Compact

• Farmers' Almanac

• New England Primer

A Puritan who disagreed with the church in Massachusetts Bay Colony, was banished from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island.

• Anne Hutchinson

• John Winthrop

• William Bradford

• Squanto

A Pilgrim who signed the Mayflower Compact, later the second governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621-1657. He developed private land ownership and helped colonists get out of debt.

• Anne Hutchinson

• John Winthrop

• William Bradford

• Squanto