USA HISTORY

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: -Puritans went chiefly to New England, but small numbers went to other English colonies up and down the Atlantic. Puritans played the leading roles in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, the Saybrook Colony in 1635, the Connecticut Colony in 1636, and the New Haven Colony in 1638.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arriving in New England, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in a town they named Boston. Life was hard, but in this stern and unforgiving place they were free to worship as they chose.

Detailed explanation-4: -The New England colonies were established by the Puritans in 1621. The Puritans were a strict religious group that was being persecuted as a result of political change in England. John Winthrop established the Massachusetts Bay Colony because the colonists were facing religious persecution in England.

Detailed explanation-5: -The second wave of English Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony, and Rhode Island. These Puritans, unlike the Separatists, hoped to serve as a “city upon a hill” that would bring about the reform of Protestantism throughout the English Empire.