Fun Facts!
- New England was so cold, diseases couldn't live through winters, which reduced the spread of life threatening diseases
- The Puritans who landed at Plymouth were called the Pilgrims
- Massachusetts was named after a tribe, meaning "large hill place"
- Connecticut was named after an Algonquin word, meaning "beside the long tidal river"
- Rhode Island was named after a Dutch word meaning "red island"
- New Hampshire was named after a place in Europe
- Each family member played an important role
- The New England Colonies would go on to become the setting for many of the American Revolution's major events including the Battle of Lexington, the Battle of Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Paul Revere's Ride.
- 14 of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence were from the New England Colonies
- The oldest newspaper in the United States still being published began in Connecticut. It is the Hartford Courant and it was established in 1764.