Why did religious toleration grow in Colonial America?

Answer 1

Well, for one you'd be persecuted for religious beliefs if they were agains the King, Queen, Emperor, or President's idea of relegion.

Second, U.S. history is based off of escaping resigious intollerance and religious persecution. The Puritans, a group of strong religious people, (aka "pilgrams") came here around 1604, discovering Jamestown. They come to America to create tolerance for any religion. So that everyone could live umong each other as individuals instead as one race of man.
An American farmer in the early 1800 once quoted that America was one "Mixing Pot", meaning people all over from other nations immigrated there and inter married and made new races and new religions.

Answer 2

Historically freedom of religion has been used to refer to the tolerance of different theological systems of belief, while freedom of worship was defined as freedom of individual action. In the related links box below, I posted a site called "Colonial Period - European Settlement Of North America, Factors Influencing Early Colonial Law, Differences From The English Criminal Justice System" It's a must read.

Answer 3

although puritans had come to America to find religious freedom for themselves they would not allow all faiths to worship freely. They were particularly intolerant of the quakes another group of protestant dissenters.

Answer 4

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