USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Even though the Puritan separatists left England because they faced religious persecution, they were not tolerant of other religions in their Colony. Roger Williams, a Puritan separatist minister, found the Colony to be too closely allied with Anglicanism.

Detailed explanation-2: -The plentiful water supply, good harbor, cleared fields, and location on a hill made the area a favorable place for settlement. Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor on December 16, 1620 and the colonists began building their town.

Detailed explanation-3: -No church taxes, no prohibited beliefs or practices. Other Protestants, Williams pointed out, wanted “their own souls only to be free.” And that was true in Plymouth Colony, which like the Bay Colony established a single religious option in each town.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the citizens of Plymouth were fleeing religious persecution and searching for a place to worship as they saw fit, while wanting the groups around them to adhere to their beliefs, rather than being entrepreneurs like many of the settlers of Jamestown in Virginia.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many of the early colonies were founded because people were seeking religious freedom-Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Maryland all had those roots.