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The Rhode Island Colony was founded by those who wanted to escape the lack of religious tolerance found in the other New England colonies. Its founder Roger Williams was a former colonist and religious exile from the Massachusetts Colony, where religious tolerance did not exist among the Puritans. The Rhode Island Colony was home to the first Jewish synagogue and the first Baptist church in the New World.
Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts is largely considered the site where the first Colonists arrived in the New World. This initial boatload of settlers was known as Pilgrims. Massachusetts otherwise is most well known as a key hotbed of Colonial dissension before and during the Revolutionary War.One of the most famous incidents leading up to the war takes a Massachusetts place name: the Boston Tea Party.But key figures were Massachusetts residents and politicians.ollowing a long history of social activism, Massachusetts paved the way for Gay Rights in 2004 when it voted to make gay marriage legal, a first in the U.S. However the current state of this issue could change; it remains a political hot button issue.