New England Colonies

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government.

Great Migration

40,000 Puritans moving to the New World Massachusetts, 1630's and 1640's

Town Meetings Form of Government

A form of government in which legislative powers are held by the local citizens

Puritans

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

Triangular Trade

A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

Plymouth Colony

Colony founded by the Separatist Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Located in New England.

Separatists

People who wanted to separate from the Church of England

Separatist

Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to leave the Church of England in order to found their own churches

Subsistence farming

farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced


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