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What state was founded by the dissenters fleeing persecution by the puritans in Massachusetts?
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoRhode Island founded by Roger Williams.
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How was Rhode Island founded?
AnswerIn 1636, Rhode Island was founded by a group of Puritans fleeing religious persecution in Massachusetts. Roger Williams and Ann Hutchinson is credited as being the leader of these people. They settled in Providence and established a rule of religious tolerance.
Why did Jewish refugees arrive in Britain?
In 1933-39 they were fleeing from persecution in Nazi Germany. If you are asking about earlier times, the key period was 1880-1914, when they were fleeing from persecution in Tsarist Russia.
Why did they find Massachusetts?
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Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were?
A. Religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia.
What were most of the early white settlers in North Carolina?
Religious dissenters and poor white fleeing aristocratic Virginia
Who originally settled in the thirteen colonies?
The majority were English fleeing religious persecution.
What is the effect of Charles you persecution of the puritans?
Over the centuries, persecution of the Puritans had a lot of different effects. For one, it was largely responsible for the colonists traveling to the Americas, and played a large part in the founding of the United States of America!
Religious freedom fleeing persecution profit land are reasons for what?
Immigrants came to America
Why did immigrants bring a Bible?
Because the Pilgrim fathers were fleeing religous persecution in Europe.
Why were mainly Protestant Pilgrims fleeing persecution in England?
In England of that time, the question of what was acceptable religious practice was not merely one of Catholic versus Protestant, because there were many kinds of Protestants, and they were as widely separated from each other in practice and belief as they were from the Catholics. The Pilgrims were Puritans, who were very different from the Church of England, and so they were as much subject to persecution as the Catholics.
How long did it take to write The Mayflower Compact?
The Mayflower Compact was written by Separatists fleeing England and persecution of King James. It provided the framework for the governing of the Plymouth Colony and was written and signed on board the Mayflower as it sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620.
Refugee status is often granted to people fleeing from?
People fleeing their homes from political persecution, physical or mental torture, war, famine and drought are typically called refugees.
