Which statement below is an incorrect description of the role Puritan women played in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Women could attend school.
Women could attend church.
Women were forbidden to speak in public.
Women were not allowed to own land.
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"Women could attend school." is a statement that is an incorrect description of the role Puritan women played in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was the first English charter colony whose board of governors did not reside in England. Settlers of this colony maintained their Puritan religious practices without interference from the king, Archbishop Laud, or the Anglican Church.
Women could attend school.
Women could attend church.
Women were forbidden to speak in public.
Women were not allowed to own land.
Out of all of the above mentioned options, the false statement if the one where it says that women were not allowed to own land.
This answer has been chosen after much contemplating. Because yes married puritan women were not allowed to own land but widowed puritan women were allowed to own lands.
Also, some women indeed gained basic education from schools. So that statement is true.
And women were forbidden to speak their mind in public as well as home.
and women were allowed to go to Church, even though they weren't as influential as men, but informal influence was witnessed, on part of the women.
Because even though the strictness of the laws of Puritans is mentioned on multiple events, however,
Puritans were one of the first people in the 1600's.
Basic information:
Many people mistake this society and their norms to be that of the late puritans but the original or pure puritans were different than the ones who came after them because those people were the pilgrims.
Puritans in the beginning arrived in America in 1630. As many as 20,000 Puritans emigrated to America with the aim of gaining liberty to worship God as they chose.