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New England Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| New England Colonies | Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island |
| economy of New England | depended on the ocean (fishing, whaling, trapping, shipbuilding, logging) |
| Puritans | wanted to make the church more pure - came to practice their relifion and start farms and businesses |
| John Winthrop | Puritan leader who served as governer of Massachusetts Bay colony - led Puritans from England to Massachusetts in 1630 |
| Roger Williams | founder of Providence in what is now Rhode Island - forced to leave Massachusetts |
| Anne Hutchinson | expelled from Massachusetts colony because of her religious beliefs |
| town meetings | assembly of people in a New England town that made laws and elected leaders |
| barter (system) | to exchange goods |
| free market system | an economic system where people are able to choose the goods and services they buy and make |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or offer one kind or service |
| exports | a product that leaves a country |
| imports | a product brought in to a country |
| triangular trade routes | shipping routes that connected England, the colonies, and Africa |
| expel | force to leave |
| shipbuilding | An important industry for the economy of the New England colonies |
| main reason Puritans started Massachusetts Bay colony | to live according to religious beliefs |
| leader of the Wampanoag who tried to unite Native Americans against colonists in New England | Metacomet |