Main religion in COLONIAL Connecticut AFTER Revolutionary War?
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Well they were all protestants of course but the denomination that most Connecticut residents were (the largest plularity) was prebysterians followed by Episcopalian (since the Anglicans in the new United States all left the Anglican Church).
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I am in Bath, England and I can tell you, the main religion in this country is Christian (Prosestant), with a large number of Catholics also. We also have a massive Islamic community, particularly in the cities. The other religions you see here are Hebrew, Buddist (particularly in the South and London) and Jewish.\n\nHope this helps!
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It's all history - being in the right place at the right time - or wrong. Remember America is the new land of the Puritans. The Puritans didn't leave England because they were persecuted as much as they left because they lost their bid to frame the theology of the Anglican Church. In America they were free to influence the new and growing Protestant population. The underlying themes were church control and strictly dictated morality. \n\nYou have to skip ahead a couple hundred years for the rest. By this time, the Puritan philosophy had entered mainstream American Protestanism:\n"In 1883 a group of Christian bible scholars met for the first time at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, near Niagara Falls and established the principles of Christian fundamentalism. Article XIV of the 1878 Niagara Bible Conference Creed states, 'We believe that the world will not be converted during the present dispensation, but is fast ripening for judgment, while there will be a fearful apostasy in the professing Christian body; and hence that the Lord Jesus will come in person to introduce the millennial age, when Israel shall be restored to their own land, and the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord; and that this personal and premillennial advent is the blessed hope set before us in the Gospel for which we should be constantly looking.'"\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Bible_Conference \n\n"The term fundamentalism was first used in the early 20th century to refer to an American Protestant movement that asserted the literal truth of the Bible (not only against unbelievers but also against "sophisticated" theological interpretation) at a time when Darwinian evolution, secularism, and liberal theology were emerging. The centerpiece of this movement was a twelve-volume publication printed between 1910 and 1915 entitled The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth." \nhttp://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/teaching_resource/tr_fundamentalisms.htm\n\n"In the protestant milieu of the USA, fundamentalism crystallized in response to liberals' eagerness to bring Christianity into the post-Darwinian world by questioning the scientific and historical accuracy of the scripture. Subsequently, the scourge of evolution was linked with socialism, and during the Cold War period, with communism. This unholy trinity came to be regarded as a sinister, atheistic threat to Christian America...Bruce [Chpt. 9 of Caplan 1987] suggests that to understand the success of the Moral Majority, an alliance between the conservative forces of the New Right and the fundamentalist wings on the mainly Southern Baptist Churches, we have to appreciate these fears, as well as the impact of a host of unwelcome changes - in attitudes to 'morality', family, civil and women's rights, and so on - which have, in the wake of economic transformations since the Second World War, penetrated especially the previously insular social and cultural world of the American South." (Caplan 1987: 6)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalism\n\nHere's the official view from the Catholic Church (The Whore of Babylon, according to some fundamentalists):\nhttp://www.catholic.com/library/Fundamentalism.asp\n...and their broadminded take on a few sticking points:\nhttp://www.catholic.com/library/faith_science.asp
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try connecticut mabye
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sounds like the american Revolution?  \n\nYou need to find out all the things that are good about England and being part of british empire.   Talk about loyalty to king....talk ahat bout how the "patriots" are traitors that will be hung for their treason.  (you have to embrace and see it from the perspective of the loyalists)
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I have heard that one of the reasons that Britain got away from being religious was because of the troubles between Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans early on.  The Government in Britain went back and forth between loyalties and persecution would be against the Anglicans for a time, and then against the Catholics for a time, and back and forth.  People basically got fed up and stayed home.\n\nIn America, a lot of people supposedly came here for the main purpose of religious freedom.  You would have to be a pretty devoted person to pack up and leave everything you knew to come to a newly discovered frontier land.  So maybe historically, that is the reason.
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It appears that the 'Thompson' family of Mendon Massachusetts did this.\n\nThe Thompsons of Mendon lived quite a ways from the town church, which was the epicenter of towns back then. On November 17, 1719, they made a formal complaint (to the Mendon town leaders) that they lived too far from the Congregational Church and the school to utilize their services, yet were required to pay taxes to support them. As a solution, they proposed establishing a new town called 'Bellingham'.\n\nI've listed my reference below. Hope this is what you were looking for.\n\njdmorningreport
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Try this: \n\nhttp://www.newtown.k12.ct.us/~royalk/mushrmdiag.htm
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yes, go to Plymouth and look it up.\nMiles made a contract with all the people on the Mayflower. \nthis is history and easy to look up
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Pennsylvania- 1623\n\nMassachusetts- 1620\n\nConniticut- 1635\n\nVirginia- 1607\n\nMaryland- 1634\n\nSorry, that's all i know, i cant remember the religious beliefs and riches. \n\n\n\nHope i helped some! good luck with whatever assignment you are doing!!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_revolution\n\nshould help  has alot of info on it :)
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hello Idance2dance\nI have been a christian for as long as I can remember I grew up going to church. I am from Conn. \nWould be glad to be your e-mail buddy.
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The New England Colonies include Massachusetts (which included Maine athe time), Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont.  Boston was the chief city for the New Endland Colonies and was founded in 1630.  \n\nLook on wikipedia.org for a better description.
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The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies in North America. The war began largely as a colonial revolt against the economic policies of the British Empire, and eventually widened far beyond British North America, with France, Spain, and the Netherlands entering the war against Great Britain. Additionally, many American Indians fought on both sides of the conflict.\n\nThroughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority to capture colonial coastal cities, but control of the countryside largely eluded them. French involvement proved decisive, with a naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a British army at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 recognized the independence of the United States of America. Because a great number of colonists fled the thirteen colonies and settled in the north, the war also paved the way for the eventual creation of what would become Canada.
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It's a great book, one which inspired the American Revolution (repudiated the Divine right of kings to rule without consent of the governed).\n\nAlso, to do good with all one's wisdom and strength is the highest religion.  And the doctrine of a savior is unjust: no honest man can accept another's dying for him.\n\nThese were (and are) revolutionary concepts which helped change the history of our early republic.
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When people say this country was founded by Christians, they must be talking about the Puritans.  Puritans would consider modern day Christianity heresy.  The pilgrims consisted of three primary groups: people fleeing persecution by the Church of England (Christians by their own definition), criminals fleeing prosecution, and adventures.\n\nFormer Southern Democrats who are now neo-conservatives or Republicans are the same Christians who wanted to keep blacks as slaves and supported the “separate but equal” laws. \n\nWhen I see “In God We Trust” assuming this is referring to a Christian God, I often ask which Christian God they are referring to… Amish, Anabaptism, Assemblies of God, Baptists (both Grace and Fundamentalists), Calvinism, Christadelphians, Christian Identity, Church Universal and Triumphant, Church of Christ, Church of England, Congregationalism, Coptic Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Episcopal Church Ethiopian, IURD, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran Church, Maronites, Mennonites, Nazarene, Methodism, Old Catholic Movement, Pentecostal Church, People's Temple, Pilgrims, Presbyterian Church, Protestant, Puritanism, Quakers, Roman Catholicism, Shakers, Spiritual Baptists, Thomas Christians, Unification Church, Unitarianism, United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalist...\n\n...since most of these religions claim to be the only correct version of Christianity, which one is our country founded on?\n\nThe self proclaimed Christian right have tried to impose their beliefs on America since America was founded; that’s the reason for the first article of the Bill of Rights.  \n\nThey consist of a small group of radicals who bark loudly.
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Timeline of the American Revolution.\n\nhttp://theamericanrevolution.org/tline.asp\n\nhttp://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/American_Revolution.html\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/index.html\n\nhttp://www.cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/paulvm/foyer.html\n\nMassachusetts Colony was a hotbed of sedition in the spring of 1775. Preparations for conflict with the Royal authority had been underway throughout the winter with the production of arms and munitions, the training of militia (including the minutemen), and the organization of defenses.\n\nhttp://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lexington.htm\n\nhttp://www.historiclexington.com/battle.html\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/boflandc.htm\n\nhttp://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/lexington/lexingxx.htm\n\nhttp://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/mo023.htm\n\nThe Second Continental Congress\n\nhttp://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/SecondCongress.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.