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Category: History
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Religion in the colonies prior to 1700

Great Britain harbored many religiously oppressed individuals constantly seeking for an

escape. The British North American colonies provided new opportunities for the persecuted.

Prior to 1700, religious toleration existed in New England, the middle colonies, and the souther

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     The majority of New England settlers enforced strict Puritanism, some even Separatism.

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