LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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New York, New York
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Jamestown, Virginia
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Plymouth, Massachusetts
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Detailed explanation-2: -The founder of the new colony was the Virginia Company, with the first two settlements in Jamestown on the north bank of the James River and Popham Colony on the Kennebec River in modern-day Maine, both in 1607.
Detailed explanation-3: -It’s widely accepted that the first settlers were hunter-gatherers that came to North America from the North Asia Mammoth steppe via the Bering land bridge.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jamestown was located as close to the Atlantic Ocean as the initial colonial leaders thought was safe, rather than as far inland as ships could go, in order to balance military security with the logistics of getting back and forth to England.
Detailed explanation-5: -Jamestown Fort, ‘Birthplace’ Of America in 1607, Is Found.