SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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had more laws
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punished people who broke religious rules
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had more trees
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all had policies of religious tolerance
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Detailed explanation-1: -That is, they honored the right to worship without interference. This laid the foundation for the well-known religious tolerance of the Middle Colonies. In contrast to New England, where the English Puritans dominated reli-gious life, many different religious groups settled in the Middle Colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -It has long been understood that the prime motive for the founding of the New England colonies was religious freedom. Certainly what those early colonists wanted was the freedom to worship God as they deemed proper, but they did not extend that freedom to everyone.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unlike solidly Puritan New England, the middle colonies presented an assortment of religions. The presence of Quakers, Mennonites, Lutherans, Dutch Calvinists, and Presbyterians made the dominance of one faith next to impossible. The middle colonies included Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Detailed explanation-4: -Only in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania was toleration rooted in principle rather than expedience. Indeed, Pennsylvania’s first constitution stated that all who believed in God and agreed to live peacefully under the civil government would “in no way be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion of practice.”