Road to religious freedom timeline

  • Religious requirements for voting

    Religious requirements for voting
    Voting required you to be a adult male and own property. You also had to be a active member of the church.
  • Pilgrims

    Pilgrims
    They came to Plymouth, Massachusettes because they wanted their own religious freedom. They were the founders of Thanksgiving, and held the first ever thanksgiving feast.
  • Puritans

    Puritans
    They wanted religious freedom, but they were not tolerant of any religion other than their own. They had settled in Massachusettes (On the Mass bay)
  • Dissent in Massachusetts bay

    Dissent in Massachusetts bay
    They were not tolerant of other religions and will banish you from their churches
  • More dissent in MA bay

    More dissent in MA bay
    They believe in separation of church and state and they had founded Rhode island
  • Quakers

    Quakers
    They were located in NJ and Penn
    They believed inequality and everyone having rights
  • Period: to

    Great awakening

    They had renewed their interest in church and religion and wanted them to be separate
  • VA for religious freedom

    VA for religious freedom
    They wanted to make separation of church and made it a requirement for all of the colonies