When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island:
A) he required voters there to be members of a Puritan church.
B) the king refused to give it a charter, and it remained a renegade colony until Williams died.
C) he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.
D) he felt that too much democracy would be bad because it might interfere with religious freedom.
E) the colony became a haven for Protestants of all kinds, but it banned Jews.
Ans: C) he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.
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A) Germany. B) France. C) Ireland. D) England E) the United States.
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