The Puritans (of whom the Pilgrins were a subset) were pissed they couldn't impose their particular brand of theocracy on everyone else, and went to Massachussetts so they could.
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Rhode Island was founded because they had serious problems with Roger Williams's unfathomable notion that civil magistrates shouldn't be enforcing religious mandates, and basically exiled him.
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