New England colonies
Massachusetts and neighbors
The New England colonies were the northernmost of Britain's thirteen American colonies: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.
Founded largely by Puritan religious dissenters in the 1600s, they developed economies based on fishing, shipbuilding, and trade rather than the plantation agriculture of the South.
The New England colonies established the first public schools in America.
- PilgrimsPlymouth's founding English colonists
- town meetingsLocal government gatherings
- Mayflower CompactPilgrim governing agreement
- Massachusetts BayHistoric colony and coastal waters
- King Philip's WarColonial-indigenous New England conflict
Atlantic Ocean · shipbuilding · harbor · Harvard College · fishing industry · triangular trade · harsh winters · Great Migration · New World · corn · theocracy · religious freedom · whaling · self-governance · education laws · fur trade · forests · coastal towns
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
New England coloniesCaribbean colonies
Occupied tropical island territories
New England coloniesSouthern plantations
Historic slave-worked agricultural estates
New England coloniesJamestown
First permanent English settlement
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