while some colonies were found in subtle to make profits in the mercantilist
system such as Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia other
colonies were found in a religious principles before they became profitable
such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island were founded by the Puritans
Pennsylvania which was talking about the Quakers and Maryland which was founded
by the catholics each of these families are standing on religious freedom
religious freedom is the right to practice any religion you choose where
to live without any religion at all
some American colonists who came to these colonies for screen persecution by
the Church of being the key as head of the church would discriminate against
other religions and people who did not belong to his church known as the
Anglican Church the first example of a colony being founded on religious
freedom the Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded by John with an accurate ends at
the MIT Massachusetts or what you guys now has limits rock they were fleeing
persecution by the Anglican Church in England because if years in faith is
different and more strict and then the Church of England once there the period
inside a document called the Mayflower Compact it was named after their boat
the Mayflower yes the first example of democratic self-government in the
american call the document set up a democratically elected government for
the periods of the Massachusetts Bay Colony next week of Pennsylvania William
Penn founded pennsylvania has a Quaker colony fun facts you ever wonder why
there's no movie theaters and only one bar in Yorba Linda that's because Yorba
Linda was founded as a quicker city
also friends church takes its roots from the Quaker church another fun fact about
pennsylvania William Penn's father was owed a debt by the king of england
Charles the Second pennsylvania's actually call you that was given to
William Penn as repayment for that debt to make sure everyone knew that the king
of england plays back his debts the one condition in which William Penn got the
land make the call me was that he had to name it pennsylvania which means Penn's
woods to help others escape persecution 10 opens his colleagues who all
religions and science peace with the indians lastly the colony of Maryland
named after the wife of King Charles the first marijuana started by George
Calvert also known as Lord Baltimore Lord Baltimore founded the colony as a
religious safe haven for Catholics who are fleeing persecution from the Church
of being ever since the Reformation Catholics in England had faced
persecution by the crown and the Church of England as a result merrill was
founded as a colony based on the principle of separation of church and
state meaning people who live in the colony of Maryland should be free to
worship any religion that they saw fit and not be dictated what religion they
should worship by the government despite religious freedom in these colony is
there are also instances of religious intolerance in New England one example
of a religious intolerance in the New England colonies with the fact that
puritans openly tried and executed innocent women of witchcraft if it
wanted to do something that women were not supposed to do then they would be
accused of being a witch they'd be put on trial which consisted of having rocks
tied to their feet and then they'd be thrown into a body of water if the women
floated favored team to which convicted and then hanged if they drowned they'd
be deemed innocent but still be debt Massachusetts Bay Colony was open to no
other fees but periods and of course there's a story of Roger Williams roger
williams appeared in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who spoke out against the
Puritan prosecution of Indians and non puritans like in the colony he believed
for example the Puritan should pay the Indians for the land instead of
encroaching and taken it unlawful when the parents moved to arrest him he fled
south where he founded the colony
road I'll Williams founded the new colony based on the principle of total
largest freedom any open the call me up to any person of any denomination now
fast forward a hundred years we have what's called the Great Awakening Great
Awakening was a period in the 18th century that's a revival and religion in
the colonial America and caused an increase in evangelism and the number of
new Christian denomination so why doesn't matter the founders such as
Thomas Jefferson John Adams and jeans and as religious and their faith
influence our choices when making the nation they know God in their founding
documents they saw the freedom to worship as essential to liberty and its
citizens however they also saw the dangers of a national religion like the
one the Church of England they feared the religious persecution that the early
colonists indoor and so put safeguards in the constitution to protect citizens
from nationalize religion by separating both government and faith does principle
still endure today