SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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They allowed and even encouraged people of all faiths to practice their religions freely and it led to
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They persecuted people with different religious beliefs and It led people to leave Massachusetts and establish the other New England Colonies.
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All beliefs other than Puritan beliefs were officially illegal but most people worshipped in non-Puritan ways and nothing bad happened to them
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They allowed people with different religious beliefs worship how they wanted but would not allow them to serve in the government
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Massachusetts Bay Colony of the New World was a Puritan theocratic state in the early 1650s. Puritan leaders did not have much tolerance for people of other religions, and as a result, the Puritan government often persecuted and banished religious outsiders who tried to enter and live in their Puritan towns.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Puritans were seeking freedom, but they didn’t understand the idea of toleration. They came to America to find religious freedom-but only for themselves. They had little tolerance or even respect for the Pequot Indians, who lived in nearby Connecticut and Rhode Island. They called them heathens.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many colonists came to America from England to escape religious persecution during the reign of King James I (r. 1603–1625) and of Charles I (r. 1625–1649), James’s son and successor, both of whom were hostile to the Puritans.
Detailed explanation-4: -What did the Puritans believe to be their purpose in coming to America (their “mission"), and how did church and state cooperate to achieve this goal? They believed they were a “city upon a hill” to serve as a model for the rest of the world.