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  1. History of religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    e. Religion in the United States began with the religions and spiritual practices of Native Americans. Later, religion also played a role in the founding of some colonies, as many colonists, such as the Puritans, came to escape religious persecution. Historians debate how much influence religion, specifically Christianity and more specifically ...

  2. History of Christianity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Because the Spanish were the first Europeans to establish settlements on the mainland of North America, such as St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, the earliest Christians in the territory which would eventually become the United States were Roman Catholics. However, the territory that would become the Thirteen Colonies in 1776 was largely ...

  3. List of religious movements that began in the United States

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    The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America. Malden, Ma; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-6936-3. (43 essays by scholars) Hall, D. D. (2019). The Puritans: A transatlantic history. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Koester, Nancy (2007). Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States. Minneapolis ...

  4. Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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    suffragist. author. editor. diplomat. Signature. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

  5. History of Protestantism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust— Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists —became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the 19th century. By the 1770s, the Baptists were growing rapidly both in the north (where they founded Brown University), and in the South.

  6. List of founders of religious traditions - Wikipedia

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    The penultimate (23rd) Tirthankara in Jainism. 877 BC – 777 BC [6][7][8][9][10] Numa Pompilius. Roman Religion. c. 753 BC – 672 BC. Nebuchadnezzar II. built the Etemenanki, established Marduk as the patron deity of Babylon. c. 634 BC – 562 BC [citation needed] Ajita Kesakambali.

  7. Congregationalism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    e. Congregationalism in the United States consists of Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition that have a congregational form of church government and trace their origins mainly to Puritan settlers of colonial New England. Congregational churches in other parts of the world are often related to these in the United States due to American ...

  8. History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed. After European colonization of North America began in the late 15th century, wars and epidemics decimated indigenous societies. Starting in 1585, the British Empire colonized ...