why did religious toleration increase in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Answer with reference to three individuals‚ events‚ or movements in American religion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. People went to America to search for religious freedom and to escape religious persecution. They came from all of the world and so with it came religious diversity. As a result‚ religious freedom began to replace religious persecution. Religious tolerance
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were two colonies with England settlers‚ these colonies were very different. New England economy was base on growing crops and livestock‚ unlike the Chesapeake who depended greatly on the king of England for economic support. The New England colony who came to the new world for religious freedom practiced Christianity. On the other hand Chesapeake colony was mostly from the Anglelican church who at the time were actually a ruling government and religion was not important. Although both colonies would
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Anne Hutchinson: A Pioneer of Feminism and Religious Freedom I walked into the schoolroom‚ and I could see my children sitting in rows based on their grade. I had been asked by the teacher‚ Miss Ashbury‚ to come and talk about the remarkable journey that led me to the Narragansett‚ an Indian territory in the liberating colony of Rhode Island. I sat down in the creaky wooden rocking chair and began my tale: “Hello‚ children! I will be telling you the story of how I ended up in Rhode Island‚ where
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During the 1600’s the Puritans came to America for religious freedom. When they arrived they found that a few people wouldn’t follow the strict new rules that they had set in place. They soon started calling them out as witches‚ and so the Salem witch trials began. But to know about the Salem Witch trials first you have to know who started them. Once you know who started them then you need to know what happened. How could you tell someone was a witch? How were these people prosecuted? Who were these
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Establishing the Colonies Name _____ Motives for settling in the New World: Spread Christianity Find a short cut to Asia Better job opportunities Roanoke Island With the permission of Queen Elizabeth‚ Sir Walter Raleigh raised money to establish a colony‚ and in 1585 a small group of men sailed for the Americas. What did Raleigh find when he returned to the Lost Colony of Roanoke in 1589? The people had vanished and they found the word‚ “Croatian” carved in a tree. Jamestown What
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Jamestown and colonial days‚ people had at first been scared to go against any ruling the king established and ended up being scared to worship their own faith and practice their own religious views. Around the 1700s‚ documents became established and prominent religious figures came into the limelight to promote religious acceptance. Although not all leaders and well known figures of the time may have been Christians‚ they all at least had a certain idea of what faith was and who the almighty God was
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The city of Boerne v. Flores case was ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in the basis that the religious freedom restoration act (RFRA) surpass the powers of the congress on June 25‚ 1997. The religious freedom restoration act (RFRA) had been enacted in 1993. The claims appraised in the case could not be applied in the states although they were constitutional in regard to the federal actions. The case started in 1993 after archbishop of San Antonio was denied the permit to expand the local Catholic
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Pennsylvania was the last colony to become established in the seventeenth century. The owner‚ William Penn‚ hoped to create it as a place where those who were facing persecution because of their religious beliefs‚ could practice religious freedom. William Penn was a supporter for religious freedom and a dedicated member of the Society of Friends or also known as Quakers. The Quakers followed their inner belief instead of following others. His religious views separated him from other people and he
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Life was very hard in colonial America in the 17th & 18th centuries. There were 13 colonies all with different purposes. Many colonists came to America to flee religious persecution in England or to find work in the colonies. By 1750 more than one million people were living in the thirteen colonies. It seems that the colonies were finally progressing from disease and feudal warfare with the Native Americans. The colonies also were beginning to show diverse groups of people. Many came to America due to
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Question: Freedom and lack of Freedom existed side by side in English colonies. Using examples from Pennsylvania and elsewhere demonstrate how greater freedom for some colonists meant less freedom for others. 300 to 600 words Freedom and lack of freedom co-existed in seventeenth century America because of English rule domination over Dutch rule in the colony of New York and the lack of English rule in the Pennsylvania colony. Once English rule spread to New York‚ it expanded the freedom of some New
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