tolerated more diversity and religious freedom, so that later immigrants to the New World were drawn to those more liberal colonies instead of Massachusetts. By 1775, although all the American ...

In his youth, Roger Williams was an aide to the English jurist Sir Edward Coke, shown here. Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery / Bridgeman Art Library International It was Coke who ruled that a ...

Arriving in New England, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in a town they named ... Over time this religious fervor diminished. Scholars disagree about when and why this ...