The Massachusetts Bay Puritans

question 24

Multiple Choice

The Massachusetts Bay Puritans

• A) lived as grim and joyless people.
• B) took vows of poverty as evidence of their commitment to their faith.
• C) created a colonial "theocracy."
• D) fought with the surrounding Indians almost immediately.
• E) introduced freedom of worship to the New World.

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