Question

Because of their continuous persecution in england, puritans of the massachusetts bay colony refused to antagonize those who harbored differing views and sought to cultivate a climate of religious tolerance

Answer 1

False

Despite fleeing England in search of religious freedom and to escape persecution, Puritans punished, imprisoned and banished those with divergent religious views. Catholics, Anglicans, Quakers, and Baptists had no rights in Puritan New England. For instance, Anne Hutchinson's was convicted of blasphemy and expelled her from the colony for claiming that she had experienced a revelation from God.