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Religious Requirements for Voting
Voting was limited to adult males who owned a specified amount of property and men who did not belong to the established state churches were not permitted to vote. -
The Pilgrims
They established Plymouth Colony and The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Indians. -
The Puritans
The Puritans believed that the Anglican church could be changed to their satisfaction. -
Maryland‐ The Catholic Experiment
It was an opportunity to grant religious freedom to the Catholics who remained in Anglican England. -
More Dissent in Massachusetts Bay
Williams claimed taking land from the Native Americans without proper payment was unfair. -
Dissent in Massachusetts Bay
Devotion to principle was God's work or to ignore God's work was unfathomable. Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were banished for questioning Church and State and the Bible. -
Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
The Quakers were eligious dissenters of the Church of England, they believed in total equality, and would not bow down to nobles. -
The First Great Awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and 1770s. -
Virginia Statutes for Religious Freedom
This guaranteed the free practice of religion without ending the Episcopal religious establishment.
