Massachusetts Bay Colony
by Katie Kohutek
Basic Info
Massachusetts Bay Colony:
● in the New England Region
● established in 1630
● region suffered hard
winters
Important People
Founded by:
● John Winthrop
● Thomas Dudley
● John Endecott:
First governor of the colony
Governed for 16 years
Climate & Geography
The climate was very cold.
There were very hard winters.
The area was rocky and full of hills,
which made farming difficult.
Why did they come? Where were they from?
Puritans settled the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in
search of religious freedom.
The Puritans were
from England.
Economy
Trade with other colonies started in 1632.
The colony depended on trade because they
did not have good land for farming.
Religion
Puritans took up the majority of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
There were some towns throughout the colony that weren’t
Puritan, but they only took up a small percentage of the
colony.
Education
Harvard College was founded in 1636 in the
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The college was very strict about their rules,
especially the dress code.
Miscellaneous Facts
● John Winthrop called the colony, “A city
upon a hill.”
● The Massachusetts Bay Colony was
founded during the “Great Migration”
time period for the Puritans.
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