SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Plymouth
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Connecticut
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Rhode Island
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Detailed explanation-1: -Puritans facing religious persecution in England set out for the New World, where they established a colony at Plymouth.
Detailed explanation-2: -No church taxes, no prohibited beliefs or practices. Other Protestants, Williams pointed out, wanted “their own souls only to be free.” And that was true in Plymouth Colony, which like the Bay Colony established a single religious option in each town.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was the second successful colony to be founded by the English in the United States after Jamestown in Virginia, and it was the first permanent English settlement in the New England region.
Detailed explanation-4: -Separatists. Plymouth Colony was founded by English religious Separatists (and some Anglicans) who became known as Pilgrims. Some members of the group were jailed in England in 1607.
Detailed explanation-5: -It was the site of the first permanent settlement by Europeans in New England, Plymouth colony, known formally as the colony of New Plymouth.