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During the colonial period North America was filled with individuals who did not agree with the religious and political ways of life in England. Before the 1700s the British North American colonies consisted mostly of Europeans in search of a place where they could find religious freedom. The first colony formed in Massachusetts in 1608 is an example of this idea of religious freedom. Plymouth, Massachusetts was a colony formed by English Separatists, who were also known as Puritans, in an attempt to live without religious discrimination
New colonies were formed before the 1700s because people were searching for a place where they could worship as they pleased. The colonists took it upon themselves to make the new world a place where religion was a matter of preference and belief rather then law. Some of the colonies, though, still took the road of the British and tried to combine church and state.
This was especially true in the northern colonies where the colonists formed......

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