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The dawn of Catholicism in America brought many contradictions sparking religious wars between different groups. This led legislative, social, and political change in the country.
John Smith encounters Powhatan and his tribe. Details of this encounter displays the difference between Powhatan and Smith.
The Virginia Company promoted the immigration of women to be married off to independent colonists. However, %%Virginia remained flooding with widows, single men and orphans.%%
Institutionalized the principle of toleration that had prevailed from the colony’s beginning. It punished anyone who “troubled or molested“ a Christian for religious reasons.
In a 1645 speech to the Massachusetts legislature explaining the Puritan conception of freedom, Governor John Winthrop distinguished sharply between two kinds of liberty.
Anne Hutchinson was placed on trial for sedition (expressing opinions dangerous to authority). The trial showcases the classic example of the collision between established power and individual conscience.
Roger Williams, the son of a London merchant, studied at Cambridge University and emigrated to New England in 1631. He is considered one of the founders of the principle of religious toleration.
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In 1647, the Levellers, history’s first democratic political movement, proposed a written constitution, The Agreement of the People, which began by proclaiming “at how high a rate we value our just freedom.” At a time when “democracy” was still widely seen as the equivalent of anarchy and disorder, the document proposed to abolish the monarchy and House of Lords and greatly expand the right to vote. It called for religious freedom and equality before the law for all Englishmen.
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