2. Started By: William Bradford & Pilgrims (Separatists)-Plymouth/John Winthrop & Puritans settled Massachusetts Bay (Boston) Why? Religious Purposes Year Founded: 1620-Pilgrims/1630-Puritans Other Information: Pilgrims wrote the Mayflower Compact – rules for self-government (with religious influence) Puritans had little toleration of other religious views

3. Started By: Roger Williams (forced out of Massachusetts) Why? Seeking Religious Freedom Year Founded: 1647 Other Information: Practiced religious tolerance-various faiths –Self-governing –Slave trade

4. Started By: Thomas Hooker Why? Puritans seeking a new settlement for Religious Purposes Year Founded: 1639 Other Information: Wrote first Constitution in America called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

5. Started By: John Wheelright Why?: Religious Purposes Year Founded: 1638 Other Information: Founded colony to worship as they pleased

6. Economy Fishing Lumber Shipbuilding Small farms trade

7. Climate Long, cold winters Rainy

8. Geography Rocky soil, poor for farming Huge forests-hilly wilderness Jagged coastline Forests and sea were helpful

9. Typical NE town: well-organized, town meeting house in center of town-town “green” Great Migration: 15,000 Puritans leave England for Massachusetts Triangular Trade Routes: trade routes that form a triangle to exchange goods between West Indies, The American colonies,& West Africa Inhumane part of the trade routes – Middle Passage-shipping slaves across the Atlantic

10. Town Meetings were held to discuss the colony – towns were well organized around the town “green”

11. Married young, had large families First Public School started in Massachusetts Town Meetings

12. Because of the rocky soil and poor climate, people turned to other ways to survive such as fishing, lumber, & shipbuilding. Practiced subsistence farming: farming in which only enough food to feed one’s family is produced