SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -December 10, 1641 The General Court established the hundred laws which were called the Body of Liberties. They “had been revised and altered by the [General] Court, and sent forth into every town to be further considered of, and now again in this [General] Court they were revised, amended, and presented."
Detailed explanation-2: -The Massachusetts Government Act was one of these Acts and restructured the Massachusetts government to give the royally-appointed more power. An act for the better regulating the government of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first English chartered colony whose board of governors did not reside in England. This independence helped the settlers to maintain their Puritan religious practices without interference from the king, Archbishop Laud, or the Anglican Church.
Detailed explanation-4: -The self-governing, self-reliant colony was first governed by John Winthrop and organized under principles laid out by John Cotton. The colonists made their living through farming, fishing, and trade.