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U.S. History 1
Colonial Religion
Puritan Colonies
New England
Catholic Colonies
Md., and Spanish/French regions
Anglican Colonies
The South
Each congregation chose its own minister and regulated its own affairsCongregational church Ministers worked closely with government
Ministers had no formal political power, but exerted great influence on church members
Only church members could hold government office
Government protected the ministers, taxed members and non-members alike to support the church, and enforced the law requiring attendance at services
Roger Williams
Williams a controversial young Puritan minister
a Separatist proclaimed that the land the colonists occupied belonged to the natives advocated sexual equality
Colonial government considered Williams a dangerous man and voted to deport him
escaped before they could send him back to England
Rhode Island
Williams advocated complete freedom of worship and denied government any authority over religious practice. 1644, he obtained a charter from Parliament empowering him to establish a single government for the various settlements around Providence
Rhode Island
Based government on the Mass. pattern, but did not restrict the vote to church members nor tax the people for church support. For a time, Rhode Island was the only colony in which all faiths (including Judaism) could worship without interference.
Anne Hutchinson
Emigrated to Mass. in 1634 1635, began to hold Sunday prayer discussions after church argued that all persons could be saved, not just the chosenantinomianism She was tried by the Church and found guilty of heresy, sedition and role reversal Told that, You have rather bine a Husband than a Wife, and a Preacher than a Hearer, and a Magistrate than a subject.
Connecticut
1635, Thomas Hooker, led his congregation out of Mass. to establish the town of Hartford.
1639, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established
New Haven was established by Puritans upset with what they considered the increasing religious laxity in Massachusetts.
Fundamental Articles of New Haven (1639) established a Bible-based government even stricter than that of Massachusetts Bay.
New Haven remained independent until 1662, when it came under the control of the Hartford colony, renamed Connecticut
In 1681, after the death of his father, he inherited his fathers lands and also his father's claim to a large debt from the king.
Charles II paid the debt with a grant of territory
Maryland and Pennsylvania had largest Catholic populations in the English colonies
Maryland
Maryland emerged from desire of English Catholics to escape discrimination.
The colony was the dream of George Calvert
March 1634, two ships bearing about 300 passengers established the village of St. Mary's Calvert soon realized that Catholics would always be a minority in the colony.
Act Concerning Religion, (1649) assured freedom of worship to all Maryland Christians
Denominationalism
Most colonies had established churches
But civil and ecclesiastical authorities had a difficult time enforcing religious authority by 1700
Empowered women Introduced revivalism into American religion Stressed egalitarianism Influenced political behavior
Quakers were also weakened, as pacifism was unpopular during the war
1786, Virginia enacted the Statute of Religious Liberty, which called for the complete separation of church and state, and the right to worship as one chose Religious toleration/freedom became U.S. law in 1791 with the passage of the 1st Amendment
The Mormons
Acceptance ofeven preference for untrained/uneducated clergy In the South, the appeal of the Great Awakening was very much as a reaction against the Anglican hierarchy appealed to the lower classes Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians all benefited
Empowered women Introduced revivalism into American religion Stressed egalitarianism Influenced political behavior
Slave Religion
Before Great Awakening, few American slaves had been converted to Christianity
Few owners were very religious Few slaves wanted to become Christian
Most retained West African religious rites
Afro-American Christianity
Evangelical churches welcomed black members
free and slave
African Americans influenced the new Christianity Christianity an Americanizing institution for slaves Christianity seen by masters as means to control slaves Christianity also a means for slaves to resist Black churches illegal in colonial South
Declaration of Sentiments
At the Seneca Falls Convention, Cady Stanton issued the Declaration of Sentiments, which called for:
Legal equality for women Rights to property and wages Access to education Right to Vote