The New England colonists were predominantly Puritans who led strict religious lives. Laws in these colonies assumed that citizens who strayed away from conventional religious customs were a threat to civil order and should be punished for their nonconformity.
Roger Williams (1603 – 1683) was himself a puritan minister from Massachusetts Bay Colony. In his view, any civil authorities had no right to involve themselves in matter of faith. Banished from Massachusetts in 1635, he founded Rhode Island, the first colony with no established church and the first society in America to grant liberty of conscience to everyone.
Massachusetts Bay Colony was therefore the New England colony that did not require all adults to attend church service.
It was caused by the sharp rise in the price of opium was seized upon by some of the Cohong trading houses and smugglers.
Answer:
Carl Schurz
Explanation:
Carl Christian Schurz born in Rhine province fought with the German revolutionaries in the revolution of Europe of 1848, but when the revolution was suppressed, he went to France, London before finally settling to Watertown, Wisconsin, in the United States. He served as Union General in the American Civil war, later his interest grew in politics and he became the first German American to hold a place in the Senate of the United States. He was an advent supporter of the Civil Service Reforms and in 1869 proposed a Civil Service Reform bill to Congress.
