New England Colonies

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/new-england-colonies

1. What made life in the New England Colonies different from the Southern colonies?
2. Why did the New England Colonies have strong town meetings?

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What made life in the New England Colonies different from the Southern colonies?The rocky soil and short growing seasons made large farms hard to grow, so people used the sea for fishing and shipbuilding instead.
2. Why did the New England Colonies have strong town meetings?Men lived close together and needed to decide together about taxes and rules, so they met to talk and vote on local matters.

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