Rhode+Island

=__**Terms**__= JOINT-STOCK COMPANY: Is a system set up for settlers to own parts of a company of “shares” in return for money. Settlers were able to buy and sell their shares. We decided to put this in the Rhode Island section becuase the joint stock company was a part in all the colonies not just one. The picture is of the colonies because the joint-stock company was a way of getting the companies started financially. (Adamczyk, Takizawa)

Roger Williams was a very religious politician that lived in Massachussets during the rule of John Winthrop. He argued that the Massachusetts church should abandon all allegiance with the Church of England and that church and state should become seperate. Proclaimed a heretic and banished from the colony, Williams took refuge among Narragansett Indians until he bought a tract of land. With a few of his followers, he established the town of Providence on it. A few years later the colony of Rhode Island was born, and for a while, was the only colony that granted religious toleration for every religion. We decided to put Williams under Rhode Island because he was the man who found the small colony south of Massachusetts. (Trivanovic)
 * Roger Williams-**

This is a picture of Roger Williams.