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Placement-Style United States History Practice Question of the Day
John Winthrop, Massachusetts Bay governor Source: Wikimedia Commons
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Question 898:
1. One of the principal reasons for the immigration to
Massachusetts Bay in the 1630s was
(A) Royalists fleeing England after the
execution of Charles I
(B) the spirit of religious toleration
present in Massachusetts Bay colony
(C) the easy life in the American
colonies based on the experience of the Jamestown colonists
(D) religious and political unrest in
England
(E) discoveries of gold in New England
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