Name _____________________________
Date __________________
New England Colonies Study Guide
1. A meetinghouse was used for
_________________________________________________.
2. The soil in the New England region is
____________________________________________.
3. Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were banished from the Massachusetts Bay
Colony because their ideas about how to practice were
_________________________ from most Puritans’ ideas.
4. _______________________________ is the religious group who settled in the New
England colonies.
5. A major export was __________________________.
6. The New England Confederation was established in 1643 and represented the
Colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth. The main
purpose for this Confederation was to
________________________________________________________.
7. __________________________________________ used town hall meetings as an
important form of government.
8. John Winthrop led the Puritans to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Around 20,000
people came to Massachusetts from England during the 1630s. This was called “The
_______________ Migration”.