SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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established the principal of religious freedom.
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allowed only adult male colonists to vote.
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recognized the need for laws and leadership.
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followed the English tradition of electing representatives.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Plymouth colony was among the first of the successful English settlements in North America. It became self-sufficient using the raw materials that were available. The Plymouth Colony established and set a precedent for self-government.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -The Mayflower Compact Forty-one of the Mayflower’s 102 passengers were Pilgrims, separatists seeking religious freedom who referred to the rest of the travelers as “strangers.” The strangers argued that since the Mayflower did not land in Virginia, as originally planned, the contract with the Virginia Company was void.