Colonial America ‘til 1759 The American colonists came from a variety of backgrounds. There were the English, who were running away from religious persecution, the Dutch, who reputedly bought Manhattan for a string of beads. The French Huguenots, who were Protestants fleeing from prosecution in a Catholic country. The Quakers, fleeing from harrassments of the Anglican establishment, the church of England, and Germans from innumerable principalities, fleeing military draft and the various exaction’s of the …showed first 75 words of 1075 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1075 total…minority. He offered equal protection to both religious groups with the Calvert Toleration Act. As far as tolerance of other unlawful practices are concerned, blacks were treated unfairly while all governing bodies went along with the idea of slave trading. Women, as we know were not given many of the same rights that men were given until the late eighteen and early nineteen hundreds. Tolerance was far from coming into action in the Colonial Americas.