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Apr 12, 2021 · Learn how Christianity, Judaism, and Native American religions shaped the culture and politics of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. Explore the diversity, conflicts, and toleration of religious practices and beliefs in colonial America.
- Joshua J. Mark
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The New England colonies, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were conceived and established "as plantations of religion." Some settlers who arrived in these areas came for secular motives--"to catch fish" as one New Englander put it--but the great majority left Europe to worship God in the way they believed to be correct.
United States - New England, Colonies, Puritans: Although lacking a charter, the founders of Plymouth in Massachusetts were, like their counterparts in Virginia, dependent upon private investments from profit-minded backers to finance their colony. The nucleus of that settlement was drawn from an enclave of English émigrés in Leiden, Holland (now in The Netherlands). These religious ...
