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At these schools, Native American children were prohibited from wearing ceremonial clothes or practicing native religions. government subsidized boarding schools to educate and assimilate Native American children. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the U.S. Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs ordered that all Mormons be exterminated or expelled from the state.Īt Haun’s Mill, Missouri militia members massacred 17 Mormons on October 30, 1838. Mormons, led by Joseph Smith, clashed with the Protestant majority in Missouri in 1838. Religious Intolerance In the United States The Fourteenth Amendment, adopted in 1868, extended religious freedom by preventing states from enacting laws that would advance or inhibit any one religion. It established a separation of church and state that prohibited the federal government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” It also prohibits the government, in most cases, from interfering with a person’s religious beliefs or practices.

The First Amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791.

Madison would go on to draft the First Amendment, a part of the Bill of Rights that would provide constitutional protection for certain individual liberties including freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the press, and the rights to assemble and petition the government. In 1785, Virginia statesman (and future president) James Madison argued against state support of Christian religious instruction. This broke with European tradition by allowing people of any faith (or no faith) to serve in public office in the United States. The Constitution prohibits the use of religious tests as qualification for public office. Religion was mentioned only once in the U.S.

Rhode Island became the first colony with no established church and the first to grant religious freedom to everyone, including Quakers and Jews.Īs Virginia’s governor in 1779, Thomas Jefferson drafted a bill that would guarantee the religious freedoms of Virginians of all faiths-including those with no faith-but the bill did not pass into law. Williams then moved south and founded Rhode Island. In 1635 Roger Williams, a Puritan dissident, was banned from Massachusetts.