SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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follow Separatist beliefs
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benefit the Church of England
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practice their religions freely
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avoid an impending religious war
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Detailed explanation-1: -Both Pilgrims and Puritans established New World colonies to practice their religions freely. Hence, option C is correct.
Detailed explanation-2: -They came to explore, to make money, to spread and practice their religion freely, and to live on land of their own. The Pilgrims and Puritans came to America to practice religious freedom. In the 1500s England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and created a new church called the Church of England.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Puritans. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans were English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the Church of England did not go far enough.
Detailed explanation-4: -Both Pilgrims and Puritans wrote poetry, sermons, diaries, and autobiographies. Many of them were literate, including women. Their culture was book-centric. Within ten years of landing in Boston, the Puritans had founded a printing press and a college (Harvard).
Detailed explanation-5: -The Puritans came to Massachusetts seeking religious freedom, but their concept of religious freedom was not at all the same as ours. They meant religious freedom for themselves that was the right to worship, to establish churches as they saw fit, which they were unable to do in England.