England, puritans emigrated to america to gain the liberty to worship god.
He was first African American national baseball player
A) 1st. This amendment allowed freedom of speech, freedom of the press (news media), and the right for people to assemble in a peaceful manner.
The first reason was because he claimed that the sun is the center of the universe which the Church believed was heretical as it opposed what was written in the holy scriptures. The second was that he stated that Earth moves around the sun and is not immovable as was believed, but this was deemed heretical also due to holy scriptures.
