In the early establishment of the English colonies in North America just how big of a role did religion play? While considering and looking at colonies such as Plymouth, Maryland, Massachusetts and among others and seeing how they were utterly dominated by religion one could argue that religion played not only a huge role but a very crucial one as well. As for the direction of saying that religion was a enormous role in the beginning, a team of researchers and journalist can attest to this theory by stating in their work “Religion was of the upmost importance towards the establishment of English colonies in North America. Colonies were developed as economic ventures, grants for the monarch, a penal colony (Georgia), yet most significantly for religious reasons. Religion played the most
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The colonies that religion was extremely imperative towards were Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, as well as Maryland and Rhode Island.” (Research Team Pg.3) In addition, to the colonies listed above and describing they were subjugated by religion, in fact that is exactly the sole reason and purpose they were established in the first place. One of the earliest colonies established was Plymouth by the Pilgrims in 1623. There were a variety of different reasons for the religious push in these colonies, but none stood out more than the conflicts they had with the way the church and religion laws were ran in England. Because of this it is by far the biggest and most obvious reason for them wanting to leave from England and triggered the establishment of religion in the colonies in the early days. Another one of the colonies that had a religion based establishments was Maryland in 1634. This specific colony was established for it to be a place for Catholics to practice their religion of Catholicism freely without any criticism of the other churches as they would have received in England. As for the pilgrim’s aspect of all this and there was conflict in this as stated by
The colonies that religion was extremely imperative towards were Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, as well as Maryland and Rhode Island.” (Research Team Pg.3) In addition, to the colonies listed above and describing they were subjugated by religion, in fact that is exactly the sole reason and purpose they were established in the first place. One of the earliest colonies established was Plymouth by the Pilgrims in 1623. There were a variety of different reasons for the religious push in these colonies, but none stood out more than the conflicts they had with the way the church and religion laws were ran in England. Because of this it is by far the biggest and most obvious reason for them wanting to leave from England and triggered the establishment of religion in the colonies in the early days. Another one of the colonies that had a religion based establishments was Maryland in 1634. This specific colony was established for it to be a place for Catholics to practice their religion of Catholicism freely without any criticism of the other churches as they would have received in England. As for the pilgrim’s aspect of all this and there was conflict in this as stated by