Religious Freedom

Religious Freedom Before 1700, the British North American colonies had opposing views on the degree of religious freedom in the new world. There was not one colonial society but three regional orders, New England, the Middle Colonies, and the South, unified by the different acts of the British Empire and by the English origin of most of the settlers. New England was mostly comprised of the Puritans, the mid-Atlantic Colonies consisted of the Quakers, and the …

…together in times of warfare. The North with it’s Puritans, banished non-believers and kept to its strict faith in the elect. The Middle colonies, with proprietary settlements and others built on the basis of religious freedom gave it a difference in ethnicity and religion. Settlers in the South were primarily there for economic gain, but paid their taxes to the Anglican Church. The religious freedom of the North American colonies fluctuated with the times.