Yes with minor exceptions becaus it was an English Colony established to prevent both the French and the Spanish from advancing northward it had a bias against Roman Catholic incursion. Protestants of every persuasion were welcomed as were Hugenots and Spanish Jews trying to escape Spanish persecution by the Catholic Church. I know this is not what you asked for but think it might help.
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The gobi dessert covers parts of northern and northeastern china and of southern Mongolia
The President is in charge of the Executive Branch which interprets laws
Answer: question 1 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."