USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Religious Freedom, the right to trial by jury, the absence of debtors prisons, the lack of mandatory death sentences even in capital cases, and security from arbitrary arrest were all enshrined in the Concessions. Even Native Americans were to be treated equally.

Detailed explanation-2: -Concession and Agreement (full title: The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, to and With All and Every the Adventurers and All Such as Shall Settle or Plant There) was a 1664 document that provided religious freedom in the colony of New Jersey.

Detailed explanation-3: -Carteret had been governor of the Isle of Jersey. Berkeley and Carteret sold the land at low prices and allowed the settlers to have political and religious freedom. As a result, New Jersey was more ethnically diverse than many other colonies.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Concessions and Agreements of 1677, signed by William Penn and 150 others, mostly Quakers, established West Jersey organization and civil liberties. In that sense the document is a combination of Constitution and Bill of Rights similar to that of the U.S. but it also deals with some day-to-day detailed regulations.

Detailed explanation-5: -People of all religions lived in the New Jersey Colony. There were Catholics and jews. Scandinavian Lutherans and Dutch Reformed. There were also English Quakers and Welsh Baptists The New Jersey Colony had perhaps the most diverse beginnings of any middle colony.