New England ColoniesGroup member names:

Jadean FrostChristian Dunham

Geography: Land features Ground:

• Hard in the winter , rocky and unleveled.

Soil:

• The soil was rocky and unleveled.

Hills

• Inland is mostly hills, rocky coastline.

Mountains

• Appalachians, inland is filled with mountains.

Coastline

• Flat, good to build homes on.

Climate: Typical weather

• They were farther north and therefore had longer and cooler winters than others.

Temperatures:

• Connecticut- 45.1F

• Massachusetts- 47.9 F

• New Hampshire- 43.8 F

• Rhode Island- 50.1 F

Seasons: Winter

• The winter in the northern is cold.

Summer:

• In summer the nights and days are warm or extremely hot.May get sick during summer. More of a risk for disease.

Length of growing season:

• Growing season is short because of weather.

ResourcesNatural resources:

Ocean= Trade

• Ocean= Fish

• Forest= Wood. Forest=animals

• Mountains= iron

Resources:Crops

• Subsistence farming- farming that provides for the family needs with little surplus for marketing.

Economy:Types of Work/Jobs

City jobs

• Shoe maker- makes shoes for people.

Printer and Binder

• A powerful tool to print letters, names , etc.

Trade jobs:

• Weaver: a weaver made clothes. Traded clothes to gain wealth.

Tailor:

• A tailor is a guy who makes suits for every purpose. They traded suits along with clothes.

Mountains

• Mountains provide minerals so you could be a miner.

Woods

• The woods can allow to have wood industries or lumberjacks.

Ocean and trade jobs:

• Shipbuilding

• Whaling

• Fishing

• Shipping and merchants.

Economy:Why those jobs exist

• Because they trade the supplies they make for wealth .

• Ocean= Trade, shipbuilding jobs.

• Deep ports= Cities and jobs.

• Soil= No jobs from it.

Economy:Development of Trade & Cities?

What big cities?

• Big cities are Falmouth, Portsmouth, Salem, Boston, Plymouth, Newport, New haven. They also traded with them.

What trading and with whom?

• They traded fish, timber, shipbuilding supply's. cattle, whale, rum.

Cities

• They chose big cities because it made large amounts of trade, they are on coastline making it easy to trade.

Economy:Triangular Trade

• Routes that linked American colonies, west indies, Africa, and England.

What is being traded?

• England: Sent manufactured goods to the us and west indies.

• US sent rum, fish, and lumber.

• West indies sent rum, sugar, molasses.

• Africa: Mostly slaves.

Religion:Puritans & Religious Intolerance

Puritans:

• Group of people of the English Protestants during the 16th and 17th centuries including English colonist.

Intolerant:

• They banished Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson. They hanged Mary Dyer for defying the puritan law, banned Quakers from the colonies.

Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

• Roger-Puritans disliked the fact he had an idea to separate from the church. Also founder of RI.

• Anne- Puritans disliked her claim that she possessed the authority to interpret the Bible.

Religion:Salem Witch Trials

• Started in January 1692 when daughter and niece of Reverend Samuel became ill.

How many punished/accused/executed.

• Hundreds faced accusations. Prisons filled with more than 150 men and women. 19 people who were accused we're hung. 4 women died in prison that were accused.

• It got out of control and innocent people died because of it. Governor said no more spectral evidence. Shut down because of it.

Why did it stop.

Quiz questions

How long was the growing season?

• A. Throughout the whole year

• B. Short

• C. Never had a growing season

• D. 10 months

What was the soil like?

• A. Rocky

• B. Soft

• C. Leveled

• D. None of the above

What were some raw materials?

• A. Ocean= Fish

• B. Woods= Wood

• C. Ocean= Trade

• D. All the above.

What jobs could you have and how does it help?

What are some cities that they traded with?

• A. Falmouth, Portsmouth

• B. Antarctica, California

• C. Rome, Italy

How many people who were accused of witchcraft were hung?

• A. 24

• B. 19

• C. 37

• D. 26