When Roger Williams Established the Colony of Rhode Island

question 81

Multiple Choice

When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island

• A) he required voters there to be members of a Puritan church.
• B) the king refused to give it a charter, and it remained a renegade colony until Williams died.
• C) he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.
• D) he felt that too much democracy would be bad because it might interfere with religious freedom.
• E) the colony became a haven for Protestants of all kinds, but it banned Jews.

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