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C: They were escaping English Society, but still needed the "homeland" so A&B are wrong. And they were also getting away from the political and economic woes of England at that time. The Puritans wanted a wholly religious society and believed that a "fresh start" in the colonies were their...

Colonel and then General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain went to Bowdoin College in Maine and became a teacher. After the Civil War, he became President of Bowdoin College and also Governor of Maine.