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| New England Colonies | located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian Mountains and between New France and New Spain; thin rocky soil and short growing season |
| Middle Colonies | colonies with fertile soil and a good growing season; many wide rivers to transport crops to towns and supplies to the farms |
| Southern Colonies | colonies with fertile soil and the best growing season; coast is an area of many rivers, bays, and wetlands called the tidewater |
| Massachusetts | New England colony established by the Pilgrims and Puritans; much self-government such as town meetings; Puritans had very strict rules about church attendance |
| Rhode Island | New England colony founded by Roger Williams; Anne Hutchinson also moved there |
| Roger Williams | Dissenter who wanted more religious freedom than allowed in Massachusetts; banished and founded Rhode Island; believed the government should be kept separate from the church |
| Anne Hutchinson | Dissenter who held meetings where men and women discussed religion; was banished and moved to Rhode Island |
| Thomas Hooker | minister and dissenter who believed that all men should be allowed to vote even if they were not church members; founded Connecticut with a group of 100 settlers |
| Connecticut | New England colony founded by Thomas Hooker |
| New Hampshire | New England colony founded by colonists from Massachusetts who moved north and settled the area |
| Metacomet | Wampanoag chief also known as King Philip; son of Massasoit; believed he and his people had to fight to stay on their lands |
| King Philip's War | fought between the Wampanoags led by Metacomet and the colonists over the issue of land; colonists defeated the Indians after much fighting |
| 3 major industires of New England | shipbuilding, fishing, and whaling |
| cod | most common fish caught and sold as a key part of New England's economy; sold as exports to Europe and the Caribbean Islands |
| Triangular Trade | shipping routes between North America, Europe, and Africa |
| Harvard College | first college founded in North America in 1636 |
| Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield | ministers who began speaking throughout the Thirteen Colonies urging people to renew their faith; famous ministers of the Great Awakening |
| Great Awakening | colonists took a renewed interest in making religion a more imortant part of their lives; people felt they were waking up with new faith |
| table and sleeping mattress | two main pieces of furniture in a colonial home |
| Middle Passage | the voyage of enslaved Africans from Africa to the West Indies |
| fall line | the line where rivers from higher land flows to lower land and often form waterfalls |
| backcountry | the mountainous area west of where most colonists settled |
| tidewater | where the water in rivers and streams rises and falls with the ocean's tides |
| dissenter | a person who does not agree with the beliefs of his or her leaders |
