Advanced Placement-Style United States History
Practice Question of the Day


John Winthrop, Massachusetts Bay governor
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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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