ernment and extended the liberty to allits citizens, including Jews and Catholics. The colony was consisted of malcontents and exilesthat could not stand the stifling theological atmosphere of the Bay colony. The settlers sharedlittle in common with the only consistent factor being that they were unwelcome anywhere else. Thus, Rhode Island became strongly individualistic and stubbornly independent.In separating the statement into two separate sentences, the first sentence is found to bevalid in explaining that the New England colonies were, in deed, founded on the factor ofreligious freedom. This is displayed by the enormous mass of refugees that immigrated to thearea in the 1630s. The second statement is not valid. While the Massachusetts Bay colony, andits exclusive form of government, proves this, Rhode Islands liberal standings on the subject doesprove it to be valid....
