Unwilling to Fight for Freedom
Religion offered many American revolutionaries moral approval of their opposition to British rule. However, not all religious sects or religious
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Christianity and American Independence
The Great Awakening also had a powerful political dimension, particularly in the southern colonies. The Anglican faith had long nurtured
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The Great Awakening
The traditional religions of Great Britain’s North American colonies—Puritanism in New England and Anglicanism farther south—had difficulty maintaining their holds
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Please read Story of Christianity, “Deism, Enlightenment, and Revolution” pages 294-298. Answer the questions below that correspond with your reading.
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<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] Many in the next generation, the first of the eighteenth century, felt fewer obligations to the
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<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] Another root of the Age of Reason sprang from the soil of a new faith in
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<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] If Americans believed in Saints, Benjamin Franklin would be among them. He exemplified so many virtues
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<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] Read the chapter entitled “The Church and The Scientists” in Story of Christianity by David Bentley
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<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] In the early American colonies from the earliest days of the Jamestown colony until 1700, colonists
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<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] This post has been reposted in full from Tom Richey’s blog at https://www.tomrichey.net/blog/the-thirty-years-war-ap-euro-lecture-notes scroll to the
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