When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island:

a. he felt that too much democracy would be bad because it might interfere with religious freedom.

b. he required voters there to be members of a Puritan church.

c. the king refused to give it a charter, and it remained a renegade colony until Williams died.

d. he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.

e. the colony became a haven for Protestants of all kinds, but it banned Jews.

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Ernest Henson

Social Studies

17 August, 16:41

When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island:

a. he felt that too much democracy would be bad because it might interfere with religious freedom.

b. he required voters there to be members of a Puritan church.

c. the king refused to give it a charter, and it remained a renegade colony until Williams died.

d. he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.

e. the colony became a haven for Protestants of all kinds, but it banned Jews.

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d. he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.

Explanation:

Roger Williams was the founder of the Puritan settlement of Rhode Island. This was an outcome of his attempt to make bring about a separation between the church and the state in asserting their powers.

Banished from the Massachusetts's Bay Colony due to his opposition about the government's confiscation of Indian lands from the people, he caused the church to condemn him which led to his banishment. Finding it hard to live where there is less religious freedom and tolerance, he moved to Rhode Island and founded the state of Rhode Island. This place became a haven for all believers, including Jews, making sure that there is a more democratic form of authority. He made it mandatory that there is a definite separation of the church and the state, which later became the basis of the Constitution of the United States.