Question

Roger Williams, the founder of the colony of Rhode Island, supported the idea that ________________________________.

• A. civil authority should be separated from church authority.
• B. church leaders should be the leaders of the colonies.
• C. the Native American population should be resettled to the West.
• D. the theocracy that existed in Massachusetts Bay should be extended to other colonies.
• E. women should enjoy equal rights with men.

Answer 1

The correct option is A civil authority should be separated from church authority.

Roger Williams, the founder of the colony of Rhode Island, supported the idea that civil authority should be separated from church authority. Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636, who had been banished from the Massachusetts colony for his advocacy of religious tolerance and the separation of church and state.