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Pilgrim Culture
The Pilgrims were nice loving people, and they settled in Plymouth and made that their home. They left England because they wanted to believe in what they wanted to believe in instead of what their assigned church wanted them to believe in. -
Puritan Culture
The Puritans believed that they were fully pure, they dressed in deep dark clothing with no fashion sense. They also didn't like it when others didn't believe in their religion and when others would speak up about it. If you ever decided to do that, they would have you killed. They came/moved to the new world to share their religion. -
Maryland Catholic experiment
Cecelius Calvert created Maryland to have a free place for Catholics to live where they didn't have to be restricted by so many rules. Thanks to Cecelius, Maryland was made and Catholics were able to live out their religion and not have so many restrictions. -
Dissent in Massachusetts Bay
Anne Hutchins spoke up about how she felt which was very disrespectful in these times, and she stated her question about why should there be biblical laws if the people preaching it are not following it. she was banished from Massachusetts Bay by John Winthrop after her arrest and court trial. -
Quaker Culture
William Penn had a deal with the King to get a ton of land in the New World and start a colony with his religion. Their motivation was the fact that they were being hated on for being Quakers so they moved to the New World. -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a chain of religious revival throughout the Americas from the 1730s to the 1770s. Many people left their colonies to fulfill the religion they wanted and decided to believe in, and it went all throughout America -
Virginia Statues
This was a principle that all people had freedom of religion and could support whatever they want, and believe whatever they want.