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Religious Requirements for voting
Voting was mostly men and it was limited to only church members, this was around the 1600s when these laws were in place. -
Pilgrims
The Pilgrims were warm, generous, and thoughtful in their dealings with their fellow citizens, and with the Indians, they settled in Plymouth Massachusetts. -
Puritans
They simply wanted to "purify" the church by eliminating the
objectionable aspects of worship in the established church. They are not tolerant -
The Maryland Catholic Experiment
The Catholics were much more tolerant than the Puritans, allowing other religions to come to their colony, Maryland. -
Dissent in Massachusetts Bay
There was not too much room for religious disagreement in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anyone who disagreed was banished, like Roger Williams and Anne Hutchison. -
More Dissent in Massachusetts Bay
Roger Williams was banned because he believed in the separation of church and state. When he was banished, he went and founded the colony known as present-day Rhode Island. -
Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
The Quakers settled in Penn, they believed in total equality for all, no matter race, religion, or ethnicity. -
The First Great Awakening
A religious party that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and 1770s. -
Virginia Status for Religious Freedom
All colonies had to engage in the separation of church and state.
