USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A much larger group of English Puritans left England in the 1630s, establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony, the Connecticut Colony, and Rhode Island.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Winthrop delivered the following sermon before he and his fellow settlers reached New England . The sermon is famous largely for its use of the phrase “a city on a hill, ” used to describe the expectation that the Massachusetts Bay colony would shine like an example to the world .

Detailed explanation-3: -The first settlers in the state now known as Massachusetts were the Pilgrims. They arrived in Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620 after separating from the Anglican church and fleeing England, creating the Mayflower compact as the foundational set of rules for self-government in the New World.

Detailed explanation-4: -The settlement they started in America was called the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Puritans were a group of Protestant Christians with strict religious beliefs. They disagreed with some practices of England’s official church, the Church of England. The English government mistreated them because of their beliefs.

Detailed explanation-5: -Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628-1691 CE) was the largest English settlement in New England and the most influential both in the colonization of the region and later developments in what would become the United States of America.