Question

To what extent did the first settlers achieve their "dream" of religious freedom?

Answer 1

please help?? i will give a medal:)

Answer 2

Well how definite do you want your answer to be?

Answer 3

They had no more church to persecute them for their beliefs. The law wasn't as strict at first. In Europe people were being put to death for their beliefs while going to america was a huge escape from that.

Answer 4

see and thats alli know ahah i tried googleing stuff about it to go a little more into detail but it didnt work:\ it just told me things that i already knew.

Answer 5

:/ need a better answer?

Answer 6

hmmmm ill look into it some more

Answer 7

Pilgrims and Puritans came specifically to practice religious beliefs freely and to spread the gospel. In the 1500s England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed its own church called the Church of England. However, the Separatists also known as the Pilgrims wanted nothing to do with that church. And as a result they were persecuted and harassed by followers of the new Church of England and accused of being traitors of the state. Many of these people feared for their lives, so under the leadership of William Bradford the Separatist decided to leave and go to a land where they could worship freely. In order to accomplish this new mission they sought the permission of the Virginia Company to establish their new home in this new land. Once they got permission the Pilgrims set sail in September 1620 on the Mayflower.

Answer 8

After learning that the pilgrims started their own colony and succeed other oppressed religious groups began to follow in their footsteps. In 1630 the Puritans also left England in search of religious freedom. The puritans left England because they wanted to become pure and get rid of any evil associated with the Church of England. In England if they disobey the Church of England they would suffer serious consequences. For that reason, they left to make reforms and changes elsewhere.

Answer 9

On October 31, 1731, the Catholic ruler of Salzburg, Austria, Archbishop Leopold von Firmian, issued an edict expelling as many as 20,000 Lutherans from his principality. Many propertyless Lutherans, given only eight days to leave their homes, froze to death as they drifted through the winter seeking sanctuary. The wealthier ones who were allowed three months to dispose of their property fared better. Some of these Salzburgers reached London, from whence they sailed to Georgia. Others found new homes in the Netherlands and East Prussia.

Answer 10

The slaughter of Huguenots (French Protestants) by Catholics at Sens, Burgundy in 1562 occurred at the beginning of more than thirty years of religious strife between French Protestants and Catholics. These wars produced numerous atrocities. The worst was the notorious St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris, August 24, 1572. Thousands of Huguenots were butchered by Roman Catholic mobs. Although an accommodation between the two sides was sealed in 1598 by the Edict of Nantes, religious privileges of Huguenots eroded during the seventeenth century and were extinguished in 1685 by the revocation of the Edict. Perhaps as many as 400,000 French Protestants emigrated to various parts of the world, including the British North American colonies.

Answer 11

All around the Europe it seems after the fall of the Roman Empire the Land fell into darkness and succumbed to a religious being. Church was the main source of knowledge.

Answer 12

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Answer 13

If anybody went against it, they were speaking hearsay. Many people were killed in these times as it was a sensitive subject to go against. For many church was the way of life. People came to the Americas to escape that process.

Answer 14

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Answer 15

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Answer 16

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Answer 17

im still new to this:P ahah