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Neda Tanya Tourgoly Professor Linda Graham History 1301- 908 17 October 2016 Midterm Essay: Influence of religion with respect to the original 13 colonies Christopher Columbus is the founder of the New World. The New World consisted of thirteen original colonies known as; Jamestown, Maryland, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Georgia. The first group colonists were passionate, brave, cold hearted, and at times violent. They were willing to risk their lives for the chance of enhancing them. The new world was viewed as the land of opportunity, those who were jobless and landless in England made their way to the new world in hopes of bettering their lives. However, what they came upon instead was illness, prolonged shortage of water supply, famine, conflict, and demise. The first successful attempt to a permanent colonized …show more content…

In Connecticut they assembled a self-governing colony where Hooker urged the separation of religion and politics. In 1639, Connecticut passed the first written constitution called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, a sequence of laws that presented a Christian Commonwealth. The Connecticut Constitution stated that the colonies official religion would be the Congressional Churches. To the north of Massachusetts are the states of New Hampshire and Maine. The founder of New Hampshire was Captain John Mason (took southern territory) and the founder of Maine was Sir Ferdinando Georges (took northern territory). The main religion was Puritanism; the Congregational church out grew the Puritan church and established the Colonial New Hampshire. This is a combination of Puritan belief, Protestant, Quaker, and Baptist domination. However, Massachusetts continued control over Maine until a new charter included Maine into

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