SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE PURITANS
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Salem & Boston
|
|
|
Jamestown and Williamsburg
|
|
|
Philadelphia & New Amsterdam
|
|
|
Plymouth & Rhode Island
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The Massachusetts Bay Colony was a colony located near modern-day Boston and Salem Massachusetts. It was founded by the investors of the Massachusetts Bay Company and its colonists were mainly puritans. It quickly became the largest colony in New England and was the mother colony of Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Detailed explanation-2: -Boston. Founded in 1630 by the English Puritans of Massachusetts Bay colony, Boston remained the largest and wealthiest city in the Atlantic colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Prior to 1685 there were two separate colonies within the boundaries of present-day Massachusetts. The area around Plymouth and Cape Cod, settled by the Pilgrims, was known as Plymouth colony, or the Old Colony. By the mid-1640s its population numbered about 3, 000 people.