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Came to practice religious beliefs, but didn't want to break away from the Church of England like the Pilgrams.
They wanted to make the church more pure, so they were called called the Puritans
They built Salem, a village on Massachusetts Bay -
-John Withrop leads 2nd group of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay colony
-Winthrop's group named their settlement Boston, after a town in England
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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were two people who believed the Puritan church should be separate from the colonies. Puritans leaders voted to expel Williams from Massachusetts. Conneticut is founded.
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First college in the English colonies
Rhode Island is founded -
Both Williams and Hutchinson started settlements that joined to form the Rhode Island Colony
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Maryland passed the toleration act. This act gave religous freedom to all christians.
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William Penn, an English Quaker, got approval to start a colony. He named it Pennsylvania./He also became the owner or proprietor of Delaware.
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