They could not learn how to read or write it was seen as a privilege only a powerful white man should know.
rhode island was founded as liberal colony, having religious and political freedom, and while massachusetts was founded with that freedom intended, it ended up being founded under a royal charter anyways.
Europeans came to the new world to seek religious freedom<span />
It helped our government because it created the 13 and the 14th amendments, it also inspired the 19th amendment to be passed, which is the amendment that gave women their rights.
