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Question 6

Who declared, "Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils?"

a) John Winthrop
b) Roger Williams
c) William Penn

Answer

INCORRECT

The correct answer is: Roger Williams

A colony of a different kind was Rhode Island. Founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a minister who had been banished from Massachusetts because of his ideas on freedom of worship, it was the first colony to guarantee religious tolerance, and it provided a refuge for Quakers, Baptists, Jews and other non-Puritans.

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Roger Williams

Roger Williams founded Providence on land given to him by the Narragansett Indians, who he befriended after his banishment from Massachusetts.

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