Religious Diversity

Even though the English came to Virginia.
Many of them were not there to enforce religion.
But to focus on the tobacco company.
But never mind that information.

These so called Pilgrims came to the Plymouth region.
Where the puritan religion came to stay.
Although they wanted to build a community of holy society.
Some puritans questioned the puritan way.

The woman who came to be a dissenter
Of the puritan religion.
Her name you should ask?
Anne Hutchenson, I say.

Now she wasn't the only dissenter
That was in trouble, with the puritan community.
Rodger Williams, a puritan minister,
Also questioned the so called religion.

What did the puritans do to these antinomianist you ask?
Banishing them from there community.
Williams built this Baptist church, that rubbed the puritans the wrong way.
It gave people the freedom of religion.
Which the puritans did not posses.

Maryland was this Catholic haven.
Now it wasn't all ice creme and candy.
They were surrounded by colonies that were protestant.
So they made the Act of Toleration.

It only saved the the Catholics, that's great, you think.
The Atheist and Jews were prosecuted for there ways.
Not believing in Jesus, now that's a violation,
Of the European society.

Georgia, the buffer colony.
A diverse melting-pot community.
Lutherans, Catholics and Scots, oh my.
Catholics, the only ones that had an opinion about this matter.

Last but not least, there is Pennsylvania, the home of the Quakers.
Known as the friends that filled society.
Founded by the well known William Penn, who made a liberal community.
Churches that went the different path of the normal religious ways.

To your comprehension.
You have learned the religion
In the colonial times in the British colonies.  
Now use this information on your AP EXAM.