SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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Southern region
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Middle region
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New England region
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Puritans. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans were English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the Church of England did not go far enough.
Detailed explanation-2: -Common thinking is: They were both groups of English religious reformers. They both landed in modern-day Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-3: -The New England colonists-with the exception of Rhode Island-were predominantly Puritans, who, by and large, led strict religious lives.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pilgrims were separatists who first settled in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620 and later set up trading posts on the Kennebec River in Maine, on Cape Cod and near Windsor, Conn. Puritans were non-separatists who, in 1630, joined the migration to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony.