Section 2: New England Colonies

Question 1

Puritans

Answer 1

People who dissented or disagreed with the Anglican beliefs

Question 2

Pilgrims

Answer 2

someone who undertakes a religious journey

Question 3

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Answer 3

the first written constitution

Question 4

Mayflower Compact

Answer 4

a document that set up an organized, orderly government

Question 5

John Winthrop

Answer 5

He was the colony’s governor of a group of Puritans who formed the Massachusetts Bay Company

Question 6

Persecuted

Answer 6

mistreated

Question 7

Roger Williams

Answer 7

formed the colony of Rhode Island

Question 8

King Phillips War

Answer 8

lasted for 14 months; destroyed the power of the Metacomet in New England

Question 9

Political characteristics of New England Colonies

Answer 9

male land-owners allowed to vote; gov. based off Puritan interpretation of the Bible

Question 10

Economic characteristics of New England Colonies

Answer 10

economy based off fishing, whaling, shipbuilding; dependent on enslaved peoples labor

Question 11

Social characteristics of New England Colonies

Answer 11

all citizens must follow Puritan religion

Question 12

geography + climate characteristics of New England colonies

Answer 12

climate = cold; short growing szn; soil in New England was rocky + hilly (hard for larger scale farming)