USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Its primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies in support of the church, and for defense against the Native Americans and the Dutch colony of New Netherland.

Detailed explanation-2: -The goals of this confederation were to protect the colonists from the French in Canada and the Indians; to safeguard their commercial interests from the Dutch in New Netherlands, which would later be known as New York; and to return runaway slaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -Even outside of wartime, colonists sought to convert Indians into servants. From 1636 to 1700, New Englanders enslaved 2, 000 Native Americans and sentenced hundreds more to long terms of servitude. By the mid-18th century, one-third of Indians in southern New England lived in white households as servants or slaves.

Detailed explanation-4: -New England Confederation, also called United Colonies of New England, in British American colonial history, a federation of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth established in May 1643 by delegates from those four Puritan colonies.

Detailed explanation-5: -The purpose of the New England Confederation was defense against the Indians, the French, and the Dutch. Runaway servants and criminals who had fled from one colony to another also came within the jurisdiction of the confederation.