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m ee : __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ Teacher: _____________________________
Lesson 1 – Settling New England A City on a Hill
· In 1628, a small group of settlers arrived in New England with a _________________ (permission to start a colony).
· They started the colony of ________ near _________________________.
· They came to New England to __________________________________ and to _______________________________.
· These people were called ______________ – they wanted to change the church to make it more __________.
· _______________________ was the governor of a second Puritan colony called the ________________________________.
· Puritans wanted to ______________________ to others of how Christians should live. New Ideas, New Settlements
· Puritan leaders kept ________________________ over life in the colony.
· They did not welcome people who had ___________________________ __________________.
· They thought _______________ (disagreement) would hurt their colony.
· Some colonists did disagree with Puritan Leaders. o Roger Williams § Believed church should be _____________________________ § Believed Puritan leaders shouldn’t punish people for having ______________________________ § Believed settlers should _______________________________ ___________________ § Puritan leaders voted to _______________________ him from the colony. § He founded his own settlement, ___________________, where people had ____________________________. The settlement was based on ________________ (agreement). o Anne Hutchinson § Questioned the ___________________ of Puritan leaders § Started holding ____________________________ in her home
§ Puritan leaders thought women should ___________________ and follow the _______________________________. § She was accused of _________________ (speaking in ways that caused others to work against the government). § She was found guilty and _____________________________. § She also started her own colony that later joined with _________________________________ to form the colony of ______________________. New England Grows
· Other settlers moved away from Massachusetts to find better farmland in the ___________________________________.
· _________________________, a Puritan minister, left Massachusetts because he __________________ with the way its leaders ruled.
· He founded his own settlement called Hartford, which later became part of the colony of _____________________.
· In 1639, the leaders of Connecticut wrote the ______________________, a plan of government that allowed voters to _________ their own leaders.
· However, the only people who could vote were _____________________ who owned land. Growth Brings Conflict
· Colonists were settling where ________________________ already lived and hunted.
· __________________ – Pequot Indians tried to stop Connecticut colonists from taking their land. The Connecticut settlers defeated the Pequot.
· The settlers and Indians had different ideas about land ownership. o Indians – believed no one could ____________________, and that “selling” land meant _____________________. o Colonists – expected the Indians to __________________________
· ____________________ (King Philip to the colonists) was the leader of the Wampanoag Indians.
· King Phillip’s War o Metacomet decided the Indians needed to ____________ against the colonists to stop them from ________________________________.
o Lasted one year o Both sides suffered terrible losses § ____ out of every ____ colonists died in battle. § At least ______ American Indians, including Metacomet, died. § Some tribes were nearly wiped out, and most were forced to give up their lands. o Settlers began moving into new lands to the _________. o ______________ = the lands beyond the areas already settled by colonists. Lesson 2 – Life in New England A Religious Life
· Puritans followed the ___________ very strictly.
· Before doing anything, they considered how they might be ___________ ___________________.
· Their _____________________________________ determined how they lived, worked, and spent their free time.
· Church o Every person had to _____________________________ on Sunday. o No paintings, statues, or bells in church – Puritans believed _____________________________. o Puritan church services lasted _________________________, with a break for lunch. o Hard, uncomfortable _____________________________ o A person could be punished for __________________________. o One could be punished severely for missing church. The punishment would be to spend several hours in the _____________.
· Puritans lived by ______________________________.
· Not allowed to play card games because they wasted time and ____________________________________.
A New England Town
· Most towns were _____________, which helped people feel that they belonged to a _____________________.
· Small towns also made it easy for people to _______________________.
· ________________ = grassy area in the middle of the town that belonged to ____________________
· Houses and other buildings were built around the ___________________.
· Most towns used the __________________________, where people traded goods and services instead of exchanging money.
· _________________________ = most important building where church services and town meetings were held.
· Everyone could attend a __________________________, but only male church members were __________________________.
· Some people were elected to hold _________________________, or jobs for the community (constable, town crier, grave digger, fence viewer). Home Life
· Main room of a Puritan house had a large fireplace in which a fire was __________________________________.
· Women and Girls o Prepared ___________ o Made ________________________ o Made everyday items like _________ and ________________ o Took care of the children (most Puritan families had at least ______ children!)
· Men and Boys o Hunted for __________, __________, and __________ o Cut firewood and made ___________ o Worked in the __________
· Life was ____________________ for the early Puritans.
· At night, families sat around the fire to _________________________ or other religious books.
Schools
· · · · · · · · ____________________ was very important to Puritans.
They believed everyone should _________________________________.
Typical schools had one _________ and one _________________.
Teachers were ____________________ – students could be ___________ for bad behavior or even a wrong answer!
_____________ = used to learn the alphabet and simple Christian prayers
___________________________ = Puritan schoolbook
Few Puritan children went to school for very long because their parents wanted them to ______________________________.
Some boys continued their education to ___________________________. Lesson 3 – New England’s Economy New England Farming
· Most colonists lived in ________ towns surrounded by ______________.
· Farming was difficult because of the __________________________ and the _________________________.
· Eventually, farmers found ways to ____________ to the environment.
· Farmers traded or sold larger _________________________ of livestock, grain, wool, fruit, and firewood in port cities.
· __________________________________________ = colonists had the freedom to choose the goods and services they bought and produced. People were free to ______________ for business. Logging and Shipbuilding
· __________________ = all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service
· The ________________ industry made up a large part of the colonists’ free­market economy.
· New England forests provided wood for _____________, ____________, ______________, and ____________.
· By the late 1700’s, nearly ___________________ of all English ships were built in New England. Fishing and Whaling
· Many coastal towns in the New England Colonies prospered because of ___________________________.
· The fishing was so good that fishermen could ______________________ ____________________________________.
· Surpluses of fish were dried and then _____________________________ or ___________________________________.
· Whales were hunted for ________________________ to obtain oil, which was used for lamps. Colonial Trade
· Because so many ships were built in New England, __________________ became the center of the region’s economy.
· England set up _____________________ for trade.
· ________________ = products leaving a country
· ________________ = products brought into a country
· England insisted the colonists send their exports ____________________ __________________________________, and it expected the colonists to ___________________________________________________________.
· Trading ships left New England with _______, ___________, _________, whale oil, and dried fish. They returned from England with _________, __________, __________, shoes, and paper.
· _____________________________________ = trade routes connecting England, the English colonies, and _____________
· Trade ships often carried captured Africans who were taken to the colonies to __________________________.
· _________________________ = the terrible ocean journey Africans took on slave ships