The Half-Way Covenant of 1662: a. allowed Baptists and Quakers to attend, but not join, Puritan churches. b. did not require evidence of conversion to grant a kind of church membership. c. permitted anyone who paid a tithe to be baptized in a Puritan church. d. set up civil government in Massachusetts. e. gave women limited voting rights in Puritan congregations.

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Cohen Kerr

5 December, 00:42

The Half-Way Covenant of 1662: a. allowed Baptists and Quakers to attend, but not join, Puritan churches. b. did not require evidence of conversion to grant a kind of church membership. c. permitted anyone who paid a tithe to be baptized in a Puritan church. d. set up civil government in Massachusetts. e. gave women limited voting rights in Puritan congregations.

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Ellen Mercer · Answer 1

b. did not require evidence of conversion to grant a kind of church membership.

Explanation:

The Half-Way Covenant of 1662 -

It refers to as the partial church membership which was adopted by the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s.

Where there were partial rights into the Puritan Church.

It reduces the difference between the elected members and the regular members.

The majority was the women in the Puritan congregations.

Hence, from the given question,

The correct answer is b.