Roger Williams

Examples of Roger Williams in the following topics:

• Rhode Island

  • Rhode Island was formed as an English colony by Roger Williams and others fleeing prosecution from Puritans.
  • When dissenters, including Puritan minister Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, challenged Governor Winthrop in Massachusetts Bay in the 1630s, they were banished.
  • Roger Williams questioned the Puritans’ taking of American Indian land and argued for a complete separation from the Church of England, a position other Puritans in Massachusetts rejected, as well as the idea that the state could not punish individuals for their beliefs.
  • In 1644, Roger Williams secured a land patent establishing the Incorporation of Providence Plantations in the Narragansett Bay.
  • Engraved print depicting Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, meeting with the Narragansett Indians.

• Evolution of Protestantism

  • Roger Williams, president of the Colony of Rhode Island, was a religious reformer and early Baptist.

• Separating Church and State

  • Echoing the language of the founder of the first Baptist church in America, Roger Williams—who had written in 1644 of a "hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world"—Jefferson wrote, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
  • While some prominent individuals, such as Roger Williams who founded Rhode Island, and William Penn who founded the Province of Pennsylvania, ensured protection of religious minorities within their colonies, colonies such as Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay had established churches.

• English Colonies

  • William Bradford was their main leader.
  • Roger Williams, who preached religious toleration, separation of Church and State, and a complete break with the Church of England, was banished and founded Rhode Island Colony, which became a haven for other refugees from the Puritan community, such as Anne Hutchinson.
  • Roger Williams on land provided by the Narragansett.

• Settling New England

  • Some Puritan separatists, who had seceded from the Church of England and fled to the Netherlands, under William Brewster and accompanied by William Bradford, founded the new Plymouth colony in 1620.
  • The Puritan colony of Rhode Island was founded by the Reverend Roger Williams, who had been banished from the Massachusetts Colony.
  • Williams was loved by the Indians; he lodged with them, learned their language, and respected them.

• The Pequot War

  • Influenced by Roger Williams, the Narragansett, and many smaller tribes, remained neutral On May 26, 1637, a military force under John Mason and John Underhill attacked the Pequot village located near New Haven, Conn.

• The Bank War and Economic Boom

  • To do this, Jackson was forced to remove two Secretaries of the Treasury who refused to carry out his orders, eventually replacing Louis McLane and William J.
  • Duane with the more agreeable Roger B.

• The Year of Blood

  • In May 1782, Colonel William Crawford led a campaign to destroy enemy Native American settlements along the Sandusky River in the Ohio Country with the hope of ending Native American attacks on American settlers.
  • Peace negotiations between the United States and Great Britain created a temporary respite from the escalation, but in November 1782, Continental George Rogers Clark delivered the final blow of the Year of Blood, destroying several Shawnee towns in the Ohio Country.

• The Debate over American Imperialism

  • Many of the League's leaders were classical liberals and "Bourbon Democrats" (Grover Cleveland Democrats) who believed in free trade, a gold standard, and limited government; they opposed William Jennings Bryan's candidacy in the 1896 presidential election.
  • Instead of voting for protectionist Republican William McKinley, however, many, including Edward Atkinson, Moorfield Storey, and Grover Cleveland, cast their ballots for the National Democratic Party presidential ticket of John M.
  • Particularly controversial was the League's endorsement of William Jennings Bryan, a renowned anti-imperialist but also the leading critic of the gold standard.
  • Caricature shows William Jennings Bryan dressed as a jester wearing a sign, "I AM AGAINST AMERICAN IMPERIALISM" and he is flanked by two sinister figures with hostile expressions wearing similar signs; the one on the left is labeled "Chinese Boxer" and holds a blood-dripping sword; the one on the right labeled "Filipino" in ragged clothes carrying a spear.
  • Rogers in Harper's Weekly of September 22, 1900

• The War in the West

  • In a subsequent campaign led by Colonel William Crawford against American Indian communities along the Sandusky River in May 1782, Crawford was captured and tortured in retaliation for the Gnadenhütten massacre.
  • Peace negotiations between the U.S. and Great Britain created a temporary respite in hostilities during The Year of Blood; but in November 1782, Brigadier General George Rogers Clark delivered the final blow in The Year of Blood, destroying several Shawnee towns in the Ohio Country.