Rhode Island- Roger Williams

Rhode Island has a pretty interesting reason for being founded. Roger Williams was one of the very first people to speak out against the Puritans beliefs. He was a pastor who was similar to a Puritan in belief but he disagreed with him on 3 main points. 1. He believed that church and state should be seperate. 2. Williams belived that the Indians owned all of the land in the colonies and that the colonists had no right to stay unless they paid the indians for the land. 3. And lastly he strongly disagreed with the Puritans beliefs that the church could be "purified." Thus after some hard work and much perseverance Rhode Island was founded, and Rhode Island was founded mostly on the seperation of church and state.