Chapter 5Lesson 3

A. Life in New England1. Using the Sea

a. Fishing and Whaling b. Triangular Trade c. Slavery 2. Home and Community Life a. Work in the Home b. Education and Recreation c. The Great Awakening Pages 174-179 in SS text.

Chapter 5, Lesson 3Life in New England

• This Lesson focuses on Life in New England Remember colonies include: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine.

• Main Idea: NE colonists made a living by using resources from the land and the sea.

Life in New England

People of New England1. Many of the people in NE

were farmers.2. Because farming was

difficult, colonists used the natural resources such as water and wood.

3. Some began to build ships.4. Boston soon became

known as a shipbuilding industry.

Industry• An industry is all the businesses that

make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.

Fishing and Whaling

Many people in NE made their living by catching and selling fish. Cod was the most common fish.Merchants sold much of the cod as exports to Europe and the West Indies.

Cultural Regions

Export• An export is a

product sent to

another country and sold.

• Colonists used

whales to make

products such as

oil for lamps. It

became a very

important industry.

Imports• NE exported products to otherCountries.They traded these products for goods that they imported.An import is a productbrought into one countryfrom another.The shipping routes betweenNorth America, Europe, andAfrica formed an imaginarytriangle known as theTriangular Trade.

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Slavery• Some traders in the

triangular trade route made money by selling slaves.

• The Middle Passage was the voyage from Africa to the West Indies.

• Many Africans died of disease or hunger along the way.

Slave Trade• Olaudah Equiano survived the Middle

Passage.

• Years later, he wrote a book about his experience.

• He had been part of the slave trade.

• The slave trade was a business of buying and selling human beings.

Home and Community Life• NE families were large (usually 6 or 7 children)• Most homes had just one main room w/a fireplace.• It was also a workshop. Colonists made almost

everything they needed at home.

Education and Recreation• Puritans wanted their children to read the

bible so they had schools.

• Older boys could go to college. Harvard was the first college in the 13 colonies.

• Fun included horseracing, bowling, ice skating, and an early form of baseball.

The Great Awakening

• Church became less powerful in the 1700s.

• This changed when 2 ministers Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield got people excited once again about religion.

• This renewed interest in religion became known as The Great Awakening.

• People felt as if they were waking up with new faith. Many churches allowed women, African Americans, and Indians.

Conflicts Over Land• Colonists and Indians disagreed over land.

• Indians believed the land was everyone’s & that no one should own it.

• Colonists believed that when they bought the land it was theirs.

• This led to war. The Pequot War broke out and most of the Pequot Indians died.

Metacomet• Leader of the Wampanoag nation.

• He was known to the colonists as King Phillip.

• He attacked the colonists and lost.

• He was defeated and the remaining Indians were forced to leave or become slaves.

Review: Lesson 3• What was the Middle Passage?It was the trip by sea from Africa to West

Indies that enslaved Africans were forced to take.

What was the Great Awakening?It was the renewed interest in religion that

occurred in the 1700s.What effect did triangular trade have on

Africans?It had a devastating effect. They were taken

from their homes and forced into slavery. Many died on the journey. Northwest Coast

Homework Announcement/Song

• Write an announcement for a town meeting in New England. Include the date, time, place, and topic of the meeting. Use facts and details to support your announcment.

• OR• Write a song about a slave’s journey on the

Middle Passage.You will need to use yournotes and pgs 174-179 in text.