... not allowed to hold an official office. While many colonies were intolerant like Massachusetts, some others were very tolerant to religion. Rhode Island was even founded around the idea of tolerance of religion. Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, was an exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Roger Williams greatly endorsed freedom of religious, requiring no oaths regarding religious belief, ... offers if they so choose. People like Roger Williams did not only found the religiously free colonies. Pennsylvania was religiously tolerant but it was for very different reason then ...

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... for men and women like Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams who were kicked out of their homes because of their antinomianism acts or their criticizing the form of government. Rhode Island also became a place filled with diverse religions and ethnicities. Roger William created a Baptist Church that established the complete freedom of religion. Here Jews, Catholics and Quakers could find shelter ... to the colonies in the north. In such places like Pennsylvania economic opportunities, civil liberty and religious freedom were aspects of every day life. Unlike the religious freedom in Rhode...

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... middle colonies, and lastly the southern colonies to boot. Each portion was divvied into colonies with their own religious backgrounds. New England could be divided up into Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and some others along with those. Connecticut, Puritans through and through decided to move westward more to form a government for closely tied to their religion then separate from the church ... . Puritans came about to make a refuge where they thought their religion could not be jeopardized, this would be known as Massachusetts. Moreover to a liberal side would be that of Rho...

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... 1700. New England is an example of a section that was dominated by Puritan Separatists. An advocate of religious freedom named Roger Williams had a great influence on the colony of Rhode Island, as well as an athletic young Englishman named William Penn on the colony of Pennsylvania. All contributed to the existence of religious freedom. New England included the Massachusetts Bay Colony ... , Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Haven. The New Englanders were largely Puritan Separatists, who sought religious freedom. When the Church of England separated from Catholicism under Henr...

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... fire to Jamestown. While justifying his rebellion against the government, Bacon expressed how the government was corrupt, only served the needs of the rich and "sucked up the public treasure". The colonist's contempt for their own government made the Chesapeake colonies very scattered in terms of political views and very unstable in terms of government control. Economically, both regions ... ...

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... toleration, The British established the second successful settlement in the region known as the New England colonies; the New England colonies at this time were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island. Although the Puritans left Europe for a "good cause," they felt almost obligated to show even more loyalty in some way or another, to Britain. Even though their intentions ... 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 Is...

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... only allowed religious freedom to a select group due to pressures from England, most were allowed all different kinds of religious freedom. An example of this is the colony of Rhode Island, which was started by a man named Roger Williams in 1636. Williams welcomed everyone; he guaranteed religious freedom to all groups even the Catholics and the Jews. 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 named William Penn. At ... ...

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... . In the following century the British created 12 colonies stretching up and down the eastern coast of America, South Carolina; North Carolina; Virginia; Maryland; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Connecticut; New Hampshire; Rhode Island; Plymouth; New Netherlands and Massachusetts Bay. Georgia became one of the original 13 colonies during the 18th century. Each colony was a private venture, overseen by the English. Therefore the type ... colonies, seven were royal colonies, and five were corporate (see accompanying chart for better explanation). Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware were under pro...

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... England colonies founded at a later time were established by the exiled, religious dissenters, such as William Penn whom established the Quaker colony in Pennsylvania, and Roger William's settlement of Rhode Island after being banished for his dangerous radical idea of rejecting the bible as the word of god and the forcing of church attendance. The New England colony was full of ... ...

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... religious beliefs and new ideas about politics. He believed that there should be a separation between church and state and also religious tolerance. Those who practiced minority religions moved to Rhode Island so that they wouldn't be punished by the Massachusetts church and government. Although Roger Williams was a clergyman he was still considered as radical in the eyes of the church and ... ...

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... their own religious persecution or simply wanting a better life, confronted the balanced laws already established. Religious toleration became mandatory in order for the people to live peacefully and productively. Rhode Island even declared complete toleration of all religions on its charter of 1663. Not too long after that, in the 1680s, Pennsylvania joined them and everyone that was a peaceful worshiper of ... ...

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... motivate others to flee from the less-tolerant colonies and establish even more liberal ones. Roger Williams, for example, left the Massachusetts Bay Colony and began a fresh start in Rhode Island. His colony allowed freedom of religion completely, and it did not make church attendance mandatory, nor did it implement taxes that would benefit the church. Thus, Williams, and later Penn ... ...

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... for believing in religious tolerance and the separation of church and state, purchased Indian land and founded the town of Providence and what would become later the state of Rhode Island. On the other hand, those who settled in the Chesapeake had an entirely different motive to colonize. They founded the colonies for economic reasons as most settlers were looking for ... ...

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... Bay Colony, it seemed all the land was good for was agriculture and small communities. The Massachusetts Bay Colony consisted of present day Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Delaware. These areas where found to be more inhabitable. These areas found greater population growth. This area focused on manufacturing and agriculture rather then just agricultural like in ... ...

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... are 13 states that have laws prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in both private and public jobs: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. Seven states have laws prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in public employment only: Illinois, Indiana, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. A company's handling of policies on sexual ... ...

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... just did not agree with certain things the Puritan leaders did and were either banished or ran away for fear of life. One of these was the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams. Williams was driven out of Boston, because he questioned the authority of the government, and the legality of their taking land from the Indians without any payment (Andrews ... ...

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... from care, by selectmen of each town. With this law, Massachusetts set an example which would be followed by other colonies. "Of all of the New England colonies, only Rhode Island failed to pass a compulsory education law." In 1647, Massachusetts went even further with the "Old Deluder Act" which required every town with more than fifty householders to establish schools to ... ...

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... 's day." Magistrate also created strict laws against Quakers and persecuted them cruelly. On their first appearance in Massachusetts (July, 1656), where two male and six female Quakers arrived from Rhode Island and Barbados, they found that the reproach entailed on their sect by the insane extravagance of some of its members in England had preceded their arrival, and that they were ... ...

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... social organization, and educated citizenry was necessary to enable individuals to interpret the meaning of the Scripture for their lives. As seen in the life of a Baptist seaman in Rhode Island in 1740, one's everyday activity would be associated with praying that God would not strike them down at the very moment they looked at someone wrong. The Great Awakening was ... ...

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... , the weaknesses that it exhibited became evident. Not only did the Articles lack the power to tax, but the relied on donations from the states. In a letter from the Rhode Island Assembly, the idea of federal taxation is rejected by the states (Doc A). Since sovereignty lied within the individual states and not the national government, the Articles had no way of ... ...

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... both Spain and France in the 1780s. The Articles of Confederation made it nearly impossible to impose taxes or duties on the citizens of the United States. In the Rhode Island Assembly's letter to Congress, a state could simply reject a national duty because it was "against the constitution of (the) State" to bring in Federal officers. The duty discussed (and most trade ... ...

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