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America began as a significant Protestant majority nation. Significant minorities of Roman Catholics and Jews did not arise until the period between 1880 and 1910. Altogether, Protestants comprised the majority of the population until 2012 when the Protestant share of U.S. population dropped to 48%, thus ending its status as religion of the ...
Mainstream Protestantism began with the Magisterial Reformation, so called because it received support from the magistrates (that is, the civil authorities). The Radical Reformation , had no state sponsorship.
A History of Education in Georgia. (University of North Carolina Press, 1950). online; WRIGHT, C. T. "THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION FOR BLACKS IN GEORGIA, 1865-1900" (PhD dissertation, Boston University Graduate School; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1977. 7711433).
By the 1890s state legislatures organized local school districts under the general supervision of a statewide superintendent of public instruction, assisted by an appointed state board of education. The system remains in effect in the 21st century. The state superintendents were business managers more than educators.
Catholicism first came to the territories now forming the United States just before the Protestant Reformation (1517) with the Spanish conquistadors and settlers in present-day Florida (1513) and the southwest. The first Christian worship service held in the current United States was a Catholic Mass celebrated in Pensacola, Florida (St. Michael ...
Pages in category "Protestantism in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
Post-secondary education was formalized in 1785, with the establishment of the University of Georgia, the first university in the U.S. to gain a state charter. [38] Rural families often pooled their resources to hire itinerant teachers for a month or two at a time.
The Protestant religion was quite strong in the North in the 1860s. The Protestant denominations took a variety of positions. In general, the pietistic or evangelical denominations such as the Methodists, Northern Baptists and Congregationalists strongly supported the war effort.