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5 days ago · Intolerable Acts, four punitive measures enacted by Britain in 1774 against the American colonies. They included the Boston Port Bill, which closed Boston Harbor, and the Massachusetts Government Act, which abrogated the colony’s charter of 1691. Learn more about these and the other Intolerable Acts.
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1 day ago · The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, like the Pilgrims, sailed to America principally to free themselves from religious restraints. Unlike the Pilgrims, the Puritans did not desire to “separate” themselves from the Church of England but, rather, hoped by their example to reform it.
3 days ago · A large-scale Puritan migration began in 1630 with the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and that spawned the settlement of other New England colonies. As the Colony grew, businessmen established wide-ranging trade, sending ships to the West Indies and Europe.
3 days ago · Tens of thousands of English Puritans arrived, mostly from the East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex), [4] and settled in Boston, Massachusetts and the adjacent areas from around 1629 to 1640 to create a land dedicated to their religion.
3 days ago · The Puritans inspired this by believing America could become “A City upon a Hill.” John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in one of his sermons, felt they were being divinely ordained to build a city upon a hill, explaining “The eyes of all people will be upon us.”
5 days ago · Puritanism, a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
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2 days ago · Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.
