What is the central idea of the first paragraph of the dark game?

supports the view that people thought the Civil War would be over much quicker than it actually did.  

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in 1636, roger williams settled at the tip of narragansett bay after being banished from the massachusetts bay colony for his religious views, on land granted to him by the narragansett tribe. he called the site "providence plantation" and declared it a place of religious freedom.

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