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New England

By: Blake P. and Xavier V.

Colonies

The colonies located in New England are: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Conneticut, and New Hampshire

Colonies

Climate/Geography

Rocky soil makes farming difficult, long, cold winters and short, mild summers. Land was flat close to coast line, got hilly farther inland.

Major Economic Activities

Fishing, tobacco crops, rice crops, and little usage of slaves. Main source of economy was using lumber to build ships.

Major Economic Activities

Settlers

Plymouth was first settlement. Pilgrims and Puritans were the only settlers there.

Settlers

Religion

The religion practised in New England was strictly Puritan and they did not tolerate any other religions.

Religion

Famous Residents

Some famous residents located in the New England colonies were: John Rolfe, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, and Rodger Williams.

Fun Facts

The first attempt to colonize America was in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh on the island Roanoke.

Fun Facts

Massachusetts

The Plymouth settlement was founded in 1620, at Plymouth, Massachusetts by pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower. Later on this colony was strictly Puritan after the Puritans settled at Mass. Bay.

Massachusetts

Rhode Island

The Rhode Island Colony was founded by those who wanted to escape the lack of religious tolerance found in the other New England colonies. Its founder Rodger Williams was a former colonist and religious exile from the Mass. Bay colony, where tolerance did not exist among the Puritans.

Conneticut

Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay colony led 100 people to present-day Hartford in 1636. He and Thomas Hooker are often considered the founders of the Conneticut colony. The first written constitution in the new world was also written in Conneticut; it was called the Fundamental Orders of Conneticut.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire was founded in 1622 whan John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges were given a land grant by the Council for New England. Only three years after the Pilgrim's landed at Plymouth, the first settlers arrived near presend-day Portsmouth in 1623. They were fisherman.

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