WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans, a religious group in England. They founded their colony to escape religious persecution and hoped to build a model religious community in the Americas. The productivity and quality of life in the colony were remarkable for the time.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1628 by members of the Massachusetts Bay Company, a joint-stock trading company chartered by the English crown. The company was composed of Puritans who wanted to pursue religious freedom in the New World.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Massachusetts Bay Colony of the New World was a Puritan theocratic state in the early 1650s. Puritan leaders did not have much tolerance for people of other religions, and as a result, the Puritan government often persecuted and banished religious outsiders who tried to enter and live in their Puritan towns.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Massachusetts government favored one church, the Puritan church. This model was popular in many European countries. Throughout Western Europe, civil governments gave support to one Christian denomination. They granted them special powers and privileges, and persecuted men and women who held other religious views.

Detailed explanation-5: -The main reason the Puritans started the Massachusetts Bay Colony was to live according to their religious beliefs. 3. The major issue that caused King Philip’s War was that the colonists and Native Americans disagreed about ownership of the land.