The Puritan merchants who founded the Massachusetts Bay colony

A. were given their colonial charter by Charles II.
B. were led by Miles Standish.
C. took over what had been a royal colony.
D. established their capital in Salem.
E. carried out the largest single migration of its kind in the seventeenth century.


Answer: E

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