SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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The Great Migration
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The Fundamental order of Connecticut
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The sabath
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religious tolerence
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Migration saw 80, 000 people leave England, roughly 20, 000 migrating to each of four destinations: Ireland, New England, the West Indies, and the Netherlands.
Detailed explanation-2: -New Groups : A Great Migration Poor economic conditions, social stresses, and political turmoil plagued England in the seventeenth century. These problems motivated almost 400, 000 people to leave England for British colonies in America. Among them was a group of reform-minded Protestants known as Puritans.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1629 King Charles I of England granted the Massachusetts Bay Company a charter to trade in and colonize the part of New England that lay approximately between the Charles and Merrimack Rivers, and settlement began in 1630. Boston was made the capital in 1632.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Pilgrims were followed by Puritans who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Salem (1629) and Boston (1630). The Puritans strongly dissented from the theology and church polity of the Church of England, and they came to Massachusetts for religious freedom.