SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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to trade with Native Americans
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to have fertile land to farm
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to build forts to protect the English colonies
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to trade with port cities
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most people first settled in the Connecticut River valley to have fertile land to farm.
Detailed explanation-2: -Connecticut is a New England Colony founded in 1635 by Thomas Hooker and his followers for political and religious freedom after a disagreement with Massachusetts Bay.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did people in the New England Colonies belong to a free-market economic system? The colonists had the freedom to choose the goods and services they bought and produced. they were free to compete in business and to set different prices for goods and services.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans, a religious group in England. They founded their colony to escape religious persecution and hoped to build a model religious community in the Americas.