Which event led to the founding of rhode island.

  The expulsion of Roger Williams by the puritan leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Explanation:

  Roger Williams was a puritan minister, theologian, and author who advocate of religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair treatment to the Native Americans.

  He was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay because of his thoughts and established the Providence Plantation on land given by the Narragansett people. The year after that, 1637, another group of dissenters from Massachusetts bought land from the Indians and named it Rhode Island.

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increasing defense spending.

explanation:

world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

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