Select the correct answer.
Read this sentence:
A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.
What is meant by "a disruption of the Federal Union" in this sentence?
A.
a joining of the northern states with the states that had seceded
B.
an attempt by the southern states to form their own government
C.
an interruption in the arguments between the North and the South
D.
secession, or the breaking away of southern states from the Answer:
Explanation:
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
The settlement that was also founded by religious reformers, but NOT as a break from the Church of England, was the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
We are talking about the Puritans, who were reformers too, but in a notorious difference to the Pilgrims, Puritans were not separatists, they did not separate from the Church of England. They preferred to reform the church from the inside.
So when Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony, they followed their religious teachings and methods without splitting from the Church of England.
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