SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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The settlers were English
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The settlers spoke English
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The settlers wanted to learn English
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The settlers wanted to return to England
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Smith named the region New England after he explored its shores in 1614 for some London merchants.
Detailed explanation-2: -The New England colonies were founded to escape religious persecution in England. The Middle colonies, like Delaware, New York, and New Jersey, were founded as trade centers, while Pennsylvania was founded as a safe haven for Quakers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Establishing the New England Colonies. A group of Puritans known as Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower from England and the Netherlands to establish Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, the second successful English colony in North America following Jamestown, Virginia.
Detailed explanation-4: -What made the English settlement of New England distinctive? The English settlement in New England was distinctive from other state’s development in many ways. A distinctive religious order emerged, know as Puritanism. This distinctive religious movement led to a distinctive development in New England.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the 1600s, when the first English settlers began to arrive in New England, there were about 60, 000 Native Americans living in what would later become the New England colonies (Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island).