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Unit 3 Lesson 1
New England Colonies
Term | Definition |
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Puritans | group of people who left England to make a more pure religion and church |
Massachusetts Bay Company | company who owned land in New England and were given a charter to start a colony |
supplies | Puritans brought more of this with them, unlike the Pilgrims |
cows and horses | animals Puritans brought with them |
warm weather | type of weather when Puritans arrived |
Boston | Puritans' first settlement |
covenant | contract between church and Puritan families |
John Winthrop | first governor of Puritans |
common | grassy area in the middle of a Puritan village |
spun wool | chore for girls |
made soap | chore for girls |
cooked food for family | chore for girls |
cut wood | chore for boys |
cared for animals | chore for boys |
worked on farms | chore for boys |
Harvard | first college founded in the New World |
Roger Williams | kicked out of colony-went on to start Rhode Island |
Anne Hutchinson | held Bible studies in home and was kicked out of colony |
Pequot | Native Americans living in Boston area |
Pequot War | war in which colonists along with native allies attacked Pequot village at night |
King Philip's War | war between colonists and Wampanoag |
King Philip | what the English called Massasoit's son |