<em><u>Questions and answers about the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Puritans established a theocratic government with the franchise limited to church members.</u></em>
<em><u>Questions and answers about the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Puritans established a theocratic government with the franchise limited to church members.Related Places: United States British Empire Massachusetts American colonies</u></em>
<em><u>Questions and answers about the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Puritans established a theocratic government with the franchise limited to church members.Related Places: United States British Empire Massachusetts American coloniesRelated Topics: Western colonialism Puritanism theocracy “Bay Psalm Book”</u></em>
Next, in 1630, the Puritans used the royal charter establishing the Massachusetts Bay Company to create a government in which “freemen”—white males who owned property and paid taxes and thus could take on the responsibility of governing—elected a governor and a single legislative body called the Great and General Court ...