https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f Nina Sarafin en-us 2017-09-08 18:05:41 UTC 2017-09-14 13:32:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png 2020nsarafin https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/185991330 By Nina Sarafin, Sadie Sargent, Zoe Chappell]]> 2017-09-08 18:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/185991330 2020nsarafin https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/185994043 -Newport- major hub for shipping and trade
-Fish, whales, timber, corn, pumpkin, rye, squash, and beans]]> 2017-09-08 18:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/185994043 2020nsarafin https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/185994183 -400 miles of coastline, making it the best place to trade and ship out goods, hunt for whales, fish, etc.]]> 2017-09-08 18:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/185994183 2020nsarafin https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/185994317 -freedom is extremely important to the founders and colony of Rhode Island
-Providence, Portsmouth, Warwick, and Newport, were founded by people who  believed in freedom of religion so much that they broke free from the british and escaped to make their own place to share their views.]]> 2017-09-08 18:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/185994317 2020nsarafin https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/186471510 -as with religion, the founders of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, etc., believed in political freedom, so all free men can express their opinion at their town’s next town meeting! 
-Rhode Island is a charter colony, so it itself is governed by the people.]]> 2017-09-11 16:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/186471510 2020nsarafin https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/186473659       “Rhode Island.” Gale Group, ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/?p=UHIC%3AWHIC&u=mlin_c_nashoba.
     History.com Staff. “Rhode Island.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009
Primary Source (map):
     “The Rhode Island Colonial Charter.” The Crucial Decade 1780s, social.rollins.edu/wpsites/hist120/2012/09/25/the-rhode-island-colonial-charter/. Accessed 12 Sept. 2017.
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http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/images/historicFarm1.jpg]]> 2017-09-11 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/186473659 2020nsarafin https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/187181921 -Had alliances with Native Americans
-Believed in not taking the land from them, resulting in being tolerant of eachother
-Roger Williams bought the land from the Natives]]> 2017-09-13 14:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/2020nsarafin/qxntfx9nj9f/wish/187181921