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The 25 pages that link to Massachusetts Bay Colony, each with the reason it gives.

• Harvard UniversityRelated: The colony established Harvard to educate clergy and civic leaders.

• BostonRelated: Boston became the colony’s principal settlement and political center.

• Thirteen ColoniesBroader topic: Its leaders and ports played central roles in resistance to British rule.

• John AdamsNarrower topic: Adams’s political identity formed in this colony and its self-governing traditions.

• New EnglandBroader topic: Its rapid growth helped establish the region’s early political and religious character.

• Plymouth ColonyRelated: It became Plymouth’s powerful neighbor and absorbed it in 1691.

• MassachusettsBroader topic: Its expansion absorbed Plymouth Colony and laid much of the foundation for the state.

• Dominion of New EnglandBroader topic: The Dominion absorbed its government and revoked its colonial charter.

• Pequot WarRelated: Its leaders and forces joined the campaign against the Pequot.

• John WinthropBroader topic: Winthrop led the migration that established the colony and became its first governor.

• Connecticut ColonyRelated: Connecticut's founders migrated west from Massachusetts Bay amid religious and political tensions.

• Anne HutchinsonRelated: Its church-centered government prosecuted Hutchinson and ordered her banishment.

• Increase MatherRelated: Mather served its political and religious interests during a struggle over its charter.

• Royal colonyBroader topic: The Crown revoked its charter in 1684, bringing the colony under direct royal administration.

• Abigail AdamsRelated: Adams was born into a Massachusetts family shaped by the region’s religious and political traditions.

• Province of Massachusetts BayRelated: The province absorbed this colony and its charter when the crown reorganized New England.

• Province of New HampshireCompared with: Its governments repeatedly absorbed or administered New Hampshire during disputes over colonial jurisdiction.

• Anne BradstreetRelated: Bradstreet lived and wrote within the colony’s political and religious world.

• John HarvardRelated: Harvard served as a minister in this Puritan colony.

• William StoughtonRelated: Colonial institutions and jurisdiction shaped the court Stoughton led.

• Mary RowlandsonNarrower topic: Rowlandson’s community and religious world belonged to this colonial society.

• PuritansBroader topic: Puritan migration made the colony a center for experiments in religious community and governance.

• Colony of Rhode Island and Providence PlantationsCompared with: Its religious restrictions helped drive dissenters who founded Rhode Island settlements.

• History of MassachusettsBroader topic: Its expansion shaped colonial government, religion, and settlement.

• Massachusetts BayRelated: The colony took its name from the coastal inlet beside its principal settlements.