APUSH Essay 1 British North America Religous Tolerance

Evaluate the extent to which religious toleration in the British North American colonies maintained continuity as well as fostered changed from 1607-1700. Prior to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1630 religion had not played a large part in the politics and development of the British North American colonies. The first settlers who established Jamestown in 1607 were looking for riches similar to those found by the Spanish in Central America. After finding no treasure and on the brink of collapse they developed a cash crop economy and by doing so created the first stable British colony. The success of Jamestown combined with religious tensions between Anglicans and Protestants in England, caused the Puritans to form the†¦show more content†¦As indentured servants began to flock to the middle colonies for religious freedom, it created a labor deficit which was filled with slaves. Slave labor allowed for the continuation of cash crop farming. Religion helped define boarders and gave people an identity thought the North American colonies. From New England to The South, colonist tolerance for others shaped the development of not only government polices but also social and economic movements as well. Although the colonies went through rapid growth and development, Protestantism still dominated the region. Evaluate the extent to which religious toleration in the British North American colonies maintained continuity as well as fostered changed from 1607-1700. Thesis: Although religious tolerance introduced religious diversity to the middle colonies and fragmented the Massachusetts colony, it did not change the dominance of Protestantism, whose predominance as a major faith remained irrefutable Political- how religious tolerance affected politics AKA Colonel Government The fragmentation of New England b/c they were so intolerant, they couldn’t tolerate each other Roger Williams and Ann Hutchinson Main, New Hampshire, Road Island and Connecticut Mention City on A hill John Winthrop, the first governor sought to establish a â€Å"city upon a hill† or a model religious and civil society based on a covenant with God and one another The May flower Compact?