Question

What was a major difference between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Rhode Island colony?. (Points : 3).

Answer 1

"Rhode Island founder Roger Williams believed in religious toleration" is the one among the following that was a major difference between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Rhode Island colony. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the first option.

Answer 2

Rhode Island founder Roger Williams believed in religious toleration.

Roger Williams (1603-1683) firmly believed in freedom of conscience. He founded the Rhode Island colony after being banished from Massachusetts in 1636 because of his views. He advocated keeping church and state separate. Rhode Island became a safe place for various religious dissenters and minorities to find a place to exist peacefully -- Baptists, Quakers, Jews and other religious minorities. Years later, when colonial America became the United States of America and the US Constitution was being written, Roger Williams idea of maintaining a “wall of separation” between church and state influenced the framers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.