How Did Religious Toleration Increase In The American Colonies

To what extent and why did religious toleration increase in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Answer with reference to three individuals, events, or movements in American religion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

People went to America to search for religious freedom and to escape religious persecution. They came from all of the world and so with it came religious diversity. As a result, religious freedom began to replace religious persecution. Religious tolerance increased because some people still believed in the original hopes for America, which were freedom. Even when some people still kept to the original ways from England, a few great people still fought, which led to great key events that increased religious toleration.

One man established complete freedom of religion. An extreme Separatist, Roger Williams separated from the corrupt Church of England as a young man. He then challenged the legality of the Bay Colony's charter,
It had the first legal limitations on hate speech in the world. It allowed freedom of worship for all trinitarian Christians in Maryland. But it also sentenced to death anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus. The people who founded Maryland mainly for a refuge for English Catholics, the Calvert family, wanted enactment of the law to protect the Catholic settlers and others whose religions did not comply with the Anglicanism of Britain and her colonies. The act was revoked in 1654 by William Claiborne, an advocate for the Anglican Church. When the Calvert family regained Maryland, it was reinstated. Until 1692 when it was repealed permanently. The Toleration Act was the first law on religious tolerance. It later influenced related laws in other colonies and portions were echoed in the writing of the first