Question

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.

Answer 1

In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, women have limited rights but they could attend school and church.

But they were buying and selling land or suing in the court of law. They were also restricted from voting.

Some women used to write poetry.

So, we can say that the Puritan women in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not forbidden to speak in public.