... , called for greater religious tolerance in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, challenging authority of the Puritan hierarchy. (Doc F) The Puritan colonial leaders banished him in 1636. This action led to Williams founding the colony of Rhode Island as a "safe haven" for religions, showing that tensions over Puritan theocratic values led to the establishment of new political views in New England ... ...

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... practices so uniform that both critics and advocates could agree in describing them, and evidence is so abundant that there is no need to resort to speculation (Morgan, 88). The Founding of a new church began with at least seven men, who had to make the other one happy with their knowledge of Christian doctrine and about their experience in saving grace ... ...

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... intentional or not, this became a kind of propaganda to gain more access to education. In the 1780's the idea of republican motherhood stimulated a debate on women's education and provoked the founding of female academies, the first institutional settings in which young woman could receive serious academic training. Without this new ideology stemming from war, women may have never gained equal educational ... ...

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... ideas to develop and have a chance to become widespread and practiced in the new world. During James's reign, some Separatists moved to calvinist Holland, and a few of these led the founding of Plymouth Plantation in new england seperating themselves fromt he corrupt state church. Half of the members of the Mayflower were made up of Separatist Puritans who had withdrawn from ... ...

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... that of any other business, to generate wealth (Ayers et al, page 46). The colonies in New England however, first established at Plymouth in 1620, were created to give the founding groups religious freedom (Ayers et al, page 56). Some of the resulting colonies of New England extended this religious freedom to all members of the colony, some insisted that every ... ...

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