SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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New Englander
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Rhode Islander
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American citizen
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Dutch subject
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Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. A colonist from Rhode Island most likely identified as a Rhode Islander. Thus option B is correct.
Detailed explanation-2: -Continued loss of land and population during the following first two centuries was such that the 1832 Rhode Island census counted only 80 Indians. During the colonial era most settlers were English Protestants, although some Irish Protestants, French Huguenots, and Jews also arrived then.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1644 Williams obtained a patent for the colony of Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island-the same year that he published The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, his most famous work.
Detailed explanation-4: -Williams founded the colony of Rhode Island based upon principles of complete religious toleration, separation of church and state, and political democracy (values that the U.S. would later be founded upon). It became a refuge for people persecuted for their religious beliefs.
Detailed explanation-5: -This state was named by Dutch explorer Adrian Block. He named it “Roodt Eylandt” meaning “red island” in reference to the red clay that lined the shore. The name was later anglicized when the region came under British rule.