... 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 member of the colony submit to the chosen religion. As mentioned earlier, the Jamestown colony was established as a business venture ... savages with a heathen religion (Ayers et al, page 48). Not being on the same level as the English settlers, the English were able to justify their horrific treatment of the Native Americans. Pillage, rape, and death were the punishments for not cooperating with the English d...

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... for wealth, while ordinary Europeans settled because of religious concerns. Plymouth Colony was established by Pilgrims in what is now modern-day Massachusetts. The Pilgrims were a group of English Separatists who broke away from the Church of England because they felt that "it did not complete the work of the Reformation."" Considered heretics, they could anticipate no mercy ... in England. In the New World, however, religion could be practiced freely. Another group called the Puritans were also commonly harassed. Puritans wanted to "purify- the church of any remaining traces of Cathol...

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... region were both settled largely by the people of English origin. Even though they shared a common country of origin, and spoke the same language, by the 1700, the areas had evolved into two distinct societies. The people in New England which located in North were seeking religious freedom and focused on the important things in life when they first arrived in the ... the opposite of that in New England. Their government was based on materialistic instead of idealistic, and it was disliked by many. The migrants whom mostly sought for money challenged authority and believed that they shou...

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... settlers which came to the New World. With their goal of economically prospering, religion did not have that striking appeal, where as others found it to be one of the most important aspects of life. These English settlers had planned to stay for a short period of time, only coming ... upon as necessary to have families travel to North America, if their proposal was to return to England shortly. With the discovery of new land and profitable cash crops, wealth was at the palm of their hands. The news of tobacco being a successful cash crop in 1617 led to the ... increase the production of...

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... uphold, or at least not interfere with, the prosperity and autonomy they enjoyed. Colonies of colonial America had different views when it came to religion, but they all had one thing in common. All of the colonies could to some extent, decide themselves what religions could be established in the colony. While some colonies only allowed religious freedom to a select group due to ... The policy of salutary neglect allowed Rhode Island to develop to become the most religiously tolerant of all the colonies. A second example is the colony of Pennsylvania, which was founded by an English man n...

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... other hand, the Plymouth colony resorted to neither indentured servants nor slavery, they did it simply to keep outsiders from contaminating their religion (Murrin, 72). The two colonies share many similarities when it comes to their economic life, governing system, and certain main characteristics. When both groups of settlers landed in the new world, they lacked the agricultural expertise necessary to survive, had ... starvation or diseases, including the governor, during its first winter. Luck was on the Pilgrim's side during the next spring when they encountered an Indian named Squa...

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