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1. Baptists were the first to settle the Connecticut Colony.
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2. Rhode Island was a Catholic Colony.
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3. The
Cambridge Platform
assured the location of Harvard College.
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4. Thomas Hooker came to Connecticut directly from England.
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5. Thomas Hooker led his congregation to Connecticut in 1636.
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6. All religious decisions made by Thomas Hooker and his congregation had to be reviewed by the Archbishop of London, England.
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7. When differences arose in the Puritan churches, their sole authority was the Bible.
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8. Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, was a Puritan.
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9. The first Baptist church to be organized in Connecticut was in New London.
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10. By 1795 there were 3,500 Baptists and forty ministers in sixty Baptist churches in Connecticut.
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11. John Bolles walked some fifteen miles from Hartford to Suffield weekly to attend church.
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12. It was not until 1818 that the first Baptist church was organized in Hartford.
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13. Complete separation of church and state in Connecticut came in 1918.
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14. Some people claim that Connecticut followed a pattern of stability and reasonableness in government while gradually liberalizing.
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15. As Baptists grew in number and influence, so did the petitions for fuller religious liberty.
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16. The Federal Constitution of 1789 granted to Baptists in Connecticut full religious freedom in their state.
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17. Both Puritans and Baptists believed their people should seek guidance from the Bible.
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18. A unifying force in early Connecticut settlements was gold seeking.
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19. Both Puritans and Baptists in Connecticut were subject to Church of England practices and beliefs.
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20. Baptists in Connecticut looked upon the enactment of
religious liberty in the Constitution of 1818 as a “kind interference of Divine Providence.”
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