2. Which best explains why a guarantee of religious freedom was included in the First Amendment?
(F)
Americans did not feel they could afford the expense of paying for a state
religion.
(G) Americans belonged to so many different faiths that their leaders decided to
keep religion and government separate.
(H) Americans could not decide whether to create a Protestant or Catholic state
religion.
(1
)
Most Americans were not religious in the 1790s when the Bill of Rights was
passed.