Religious Intolerance In The Bay Colonies

In 1682, Pennsylvania, the twelfth British colony, was formed. This colony, like the eleven others already founded, was instituted with a comparable style of government and its own questionable religious prejudices. Throughout the colonies, levels of religious understanding fluctuated, apart from a few exemptions. For example, the Middle Colonies had a great deal of open-mindedness when it came to religion, whereas New England had a scarce amount, if any toleration for religious independence at all.

One early settler in Rhode Island was Roger Williams (a founder of Rhode Island) who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was banished because he spoke out against the Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the rule of the Court, he questioned the right of authorities to punish religious bickering, and the right to take away Indians land. Another founder was Anne Hutchinson, who was also banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, for religious reasons. Rhode Island officially became a state in 1790 on May 29.

The political and religious leader Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) is best remembered for founding the state of Rhode Island and advocating

In the spring of 1630, John Winthrop and his group of Puritan immigrants arrived on the shores of the Massachusetts Bay. There they founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony, an exclusively Puritan settlement based on the strict religious ideas of the colonists. As the colony expanded from the 1630s to the 1660s, these strict Puritan ideas and values influenced its economic development by putting the focus of the colony on the religion instead of on the creation of a settlement for monetary or expansive profit, its political development, by and its social development, by regulating the way other religions, women, and education were treated.

Roger Williams was an extreme Separatist who wanted his fellow clergymen to break from the Church of England, questioned the legality of the Bay Colony’s charter, denied the authority of civil government to regulate religious behavior, and was banished in 1635.

Roger Williams- Puritan leader who was exiled from Massachusetts and eventually went on to merge multiple colonies to create the colony of Rhode Island.

Since the Puritans settled in Massachusetts, the colony began with much democracy like town councils supported by Puritan religion. They also caused an exodus of people who believed differently from them and were in the colony. This exodus led to the creation of Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Roger Williams founded Rhode Island when he was exiled for speaking out against the Puritans on October 9th, 1635. The Puritans also started the larger flow of people to America.

Living in the MA Bay colony, this minister believed the Puritans needed to form a break from the Church of England, as well as a break between government and Church. He also believed the taking of Indian land without proper compensation was immoral. He was banished in 1635. By 1636, he had traveled to Rhode Island. He built a Baptist Church in Providence (most likely the first Baptist Church in America). He founded Rhode Island as a place for ANYONE to worship freely in, and eventually received charter rights for RI to be a legal colony in 1644.

Jaden Ackerman Mrs. Auble APUSH Block 3 August 11, 2015 UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: 4. Summarize the role of religion in the colonies during the 1600s Religion played a huge roll in the colonies in the 1600s especially since each colony had a different religion. The New England Colonies were primarily puritans and had little tolerance for other religions. The exception was Rhode Island who was religiously open and was founded by a Massachusetts exile named Roger Williams. Roger Williams founded the first Baptist Church in the colonies in Rhode Island.

Rodger Williams settled in Rhode Island with the belief of separation of state and church and freedom of religion after he was banished to England by Massachusetts bay colony. When he was banished he went to go live with the Narraganset Indians. In 1636 he formed a providence. Anne Hutchinson was also banished and formed Portsmouth. Two other settlers later formed two other providences.

In 1631, Roger Williams left England and arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he worked as a minister. However, his divergent views on religious freedom, and the rights of the Natives cause him to be banished from the colony. He then bought land from the Narragansett Natives, and created a new colony, which is now known as Providence, Rhode Island. Providence quickly became a home for Quakers, Jews, and other religious minorities. Although Williams was a minister, he was a strong supporter of religious freedom, and the separation of church and state. London’s religious intolerance was the leading reason he fled England. It is no surprise that once he saw the same system forming amongst the colonists he began to speak out against

Puritan religious values shaped the social development of the New England colonies. In John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity, Winthrop advocated for a model Christian community and one where everyone works as one (Doc A). John Winthrop was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony which was a very Puritan community. He wanted Massachusetts Bay, and Boston specifically, to be like “a city on a hill” that would be regarded by all as the exemplary Puritan community.

The Massachusetts Bay colony was founded by John Winthrop in the early 1600’s, as a puritan colony. The puritans among coming here established a theocratic type government with the government positions limited to worthy church members. Which left many at a disadvantage. The puritan church believed they were gods chosen people and that they were the only “pure” and civil people left. Which lead to several conflicts with other colonies and groups .

The British Colonists traveled over into the New World for society to work out in their own favor. However, this was not the case for these colonists; they carelessly came into the New World with the intent of having their own freedom of religion, being culturally intertwined with the natives already, and for their own overall independence economically . The British did not make a smooth transformation into this New World when they first arrived over seas, they brought chaos not only to the Natives but also the development of their colonies and themselves.

They saw laws as coming from God to man, not from a governing body. They believed in Theocracy, a government ruled by God and His laws. If those laws were broken, then just as the Bible said, there would be punishment. One person who illustrated these punishments was Roger Williams. Roger Williams arrived in Massachusetts in 1631amd argued that people Massachusetts’s congregations withdraw from the Church of England and that the church-and-state relations be separated, instead of together as John Winthrop insisted. Williams thought that people should be allowed to interrupt the Bible for themselves and follow their consciences. He wanted people to be able to practice whatever religion they believed in. Because he believed in those ideas, he spoke out against John Winthrop’s ideas. This was the reason that Williams got banned from the state of Massachusetts, and then went to Rhode Island to emphasis his