Which of the following statements is true about the continued expansion of the colonists in the New World?
A) By the 1630s, the Separatists had founded towns in what are now Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire.
B) European diseases had killed off as much as three-quarters of the Indian population before the colonists arrived at Plymouth.
C) The first Indian tribe to get vanquished by the European settlers during the first year of settlement was the tribe of Pequot.
D) The Puritan settlers in the New World were against fighting violent battles with the Indian tribes and did not get involved in conflicts with the tribes.
E) By the 1620s, the colonists had left the southern tribes of New England.
B
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