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Columbus Lands in the Bahamas, Sparking an age of new world exploration and colonialization. He and the other first explorers were from Spain, and so brought Catholocism to the new world.
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First English settlers land in America and establish Jamestown, bringing their Anglican Christian beliefs with them.
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Most Puritans, who believed that the Anglican church needed reform, desired change. Some radical Puritans, called Pilgrims, wished to establish separate congregations and so traveled to America to establish strictly Puritan settlements and escape religious persecution in England
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Roger Williams was banished from Massachussets bay colony for preaching tolerance, separation of church and state, and a break from the Church of England. Hewent on to establish Rhode Island, which would become a safe haven for religiously persecuted and tolerant groups in early America.
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Mary Fisher and Ann Austin move to the Massachussets Bay colony and start spreading the word of the Friends. They are persecuted, but Nicholas Upsall converted due to them and began spreading their beliefs. Eventually, a group of Quakers left the colony to move to Rhode Island, where colonies were more tolerant.
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King Charles II signs the Charter for Pennsylvania, which becomes a safe haven for the religiously persecuted Quakers in America.
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Enlightenment ideals begin and spread, later influencing intellectual American leaders with its ideas and Deism. Thomas Jefferson is one example of a Deist American leader.
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The Shearith Israel Congregation is the oldest Jewish congregation in America, starting in 1687 in New York. This marks the beginning of organized Judaism in America.
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An evangelical movement in America that focused on personal need for salvaion through Jesus and changes protestantism in America by increasing personal importance rather than ceremony.
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Another evangelical movement in America that revitalized the Protestant faith, and sparked a surge of social reforms to purge society's evils for the second coming of Jesus.
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John Adams signs the Treaty of Tripoli which granted equality to Muslims in America in all government and legal aspects.
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In reply to the Danbury Baptist Association's outrage towards the congregationalist fee, Jefferson declared the first amendments intent of a separation of church and state, and that govenrment would not interfere or control a personal right such as religion.
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In the 1830s a group of churches known as new thought churches were established, whose teachings were greatly influenced by Trancendentalism and Emerson.
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Joseph Smith Jr. starts the Latter Day Saints movement in New York, which creates the Church of the Latter Day Saints, based in Salt Lake City. This marks the rise of mormons in America.
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The Sze Yap company establishes the first Buddhist Temple in San Francisco, and many more were rapidly built in America before the next century.
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Followers of Islam begin to immigrate to America, effectively introducing Muslim communities in America.
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The first American order of Druidism is established in America, increasing the great diversity of religions in America.
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In Stockton California, The firt Sikh Gurdwara is built, marking an improvement in the footing of religious minorities.
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In Biddeford, Maine, what may be the first Mosque in the United States is established by Albanian Muslims.
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The Hindu Temple Maha Vallabha Ganapathi Devastanam is consecrated in Flushing, New York City. It is the first American Hindu Temple.