America is now known for being a country of religious freedom. When people from overseas began to come over to America, one of the reasons they came was to be able to live, religiously, the way they wanted. Settlers, who did not agree with the idea that uniformity must be present in each society, settled the northern colonies that helped form the United States. From this act the New England colonies were formed and were later known, “as plantations of religion”. Settlers fled to this land in order to be able to practice religion as they pleased, here they had the opposite to what they had in Europe. There was no one here to tell them how to or what to believe when it came to their religious beliefs. The Puritans were another religious group that came to America to practice their own religious doings, as they felt right. They “wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable residues of Roman Catholicism”. Puritan s

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