WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -While Williams was not the first person to call for church-state separation and freedom of worship for all, Rhode Island was the first place in modern history where such separation was put into practice. The colony was a haven that welcomed people not tolerated elsewhere-Quakers, Jews, and others.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1686 a community of Huguenots (French Protestants) was established in the colony. Williams continued to experience religious transformations. Increasingly uncomfortable with established Puritan practices, for a brief time he became a Baptist and co-founded North America’s first Baptist church in Providence in 1638.

Detailed explanation-3: -Roger Williams and his followers settled on Narragansett Bay, where they purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and established a new colony governed by the principles of religious liberty and separation of church and state. Rhode Island became a haven for Baptists, Quakers, Jews and other religious minorities.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Royal Charter of 1663 was a document granted by King Charles II of England to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. It allowed settlers in Rhode Island to govern their own colony and guaranteed their individual freedom of religion.

Detailed explanation-5: -Rhode Island Colony was one of the 13 Colonies that declared independence from Great Britain. The colony started in 1636 and established Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State. Roger Williams founded Providence Plantations in 1636, which was the first permanent settlement in what became Rhode Island.

Detailed explanation-6: -The Massachusetts Bay Colony of the New World was a Puritan theocratic state in the early 1650s. Puritan leaders did not have much tolerance for people of other religions, and as a result, the Puritan government often persecuted and banished religious outsiders who tried to enter and live in their Puritan towns.