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First Church of England church established. First in original colonies.
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Group of Seperatists begin to migrate to the colonies under the leadership of John Robinson. Known as the Pilgrims.
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Puritans landed at Salem and started the first relilgious based colony.
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The first group of Catholic immigrants arrives and start the Maryland Colony headed by Lord Baltimore's brother. Catholics became a minority in the colony quickly, but laws were passed protecting them.
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Roger Williams is banished from the Mass. Bay Colony for speaking out against civil punishment for religious crimes. Founds Rhode Island Colony.
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William Penn, an English Quaker, gets a charter to set up the Pennsylvania colony as a Quaker haven.
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Women acccused of witchcraft whoch included many of the poorer women in the community. They are tried and hanged if they deny it.
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First Synagogue established in NYC.
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New England's Great Awakening begins with Jonathan Edwards sermon , 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'.
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The earliest known methodist meeting is held.
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Joseph Smith publishes the Book of Mormon at age 24. This is the basis of Mormonism.
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Mormons move to Great Salt Lake Valley to avoid prosecution
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Both the Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) and the Young Womens Christian Association are created in December 1851, ten years after it was founded in England. It was made to provide housing and recreation for country men and women who migrated to the city. However, it only reached a small part of the young adult population
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A church created originally in England to help the poor gain food shelter and temporary jobs. Came to the U.S. in 1880. It attracted the poor via loud marching bands and colorful preaching. It hoped to teach the poor lessons like the importance of self discipline wile providing them with their needs.
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Mormons establish their own railroad line connecting Salt Lake City and Ogden to the Central Pacific Railroad.
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A movement founded by protestent ministers in the 1870's that believed Christians who were well off had a moral obligation to help with the issues of poverty. They also believed that Christian men and women should fight against injustice wherever they saw it.
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Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe bring a new wave of Catholicism in the U.S. Many long time Americans are enraged by this because this was the thing that their ancestors had so desperately tried to get away from.
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A movement in the 1870's and 1880's that wanted to take larger measures against sins such as prostitution. It included many different organizations and movements such as the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, founded by Anthony Comstock.
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United States v. Reynolds rules polygamy illegal.
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Mormons dissolved their people party and conformed in order to gain their voting rights back.
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Immigrants that were from southern and eastern Europe were often Catholic. This frightened traditional Protestant Americans and led to discrimination.
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A party of people who tormented everyone, but protestant whites. Everyone else was of inferior stock and needed to be controled.
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The clash between science and religion that occurs in a Tennessee school. Fundamentalists or believers in god as the creator, got ridiculed at the trial as William Jennings Bryan had a weak defence of fundamentalism.
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Al Smith makes first real attempt by a Catholic man at the presidency.
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The Detroit Catholic priest came out as one of the biggest and most influencial of New Deal critics. His National Union of Social Justice gained decent amount of support for quite a wile. His followered usually came from the lower to middle class.
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This act put in place by Hitler stripped Jews of the rights of German citizenship, and restricted them in areas of educational, social, and economic life.
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"Night of the Brokent Glass," as Kristallnacht would be translated to, was a frenzy of destruction and arson against Jews is Germany.
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The mass killings of the Jews under Hitler's regime. It is known as one of the greatest tragedies in human history.
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A ship filled with 950 Jewish refugees from Germany asked to let its passengers ashore at Fort Lauderdale port in Florida. The U.S. refused to let them live safely here and made the boat go back to Germany, where most of the people abored died from Nazi brutalitly.
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The first reports of the Holocaust were leaked to America. Unfortuantlly, most Americans discounted the reports.
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The Soviets liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, the largest of the Nazi Camp. Bringing the end of the Holocaust closer.
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Kennedy becomes first Catholic president.
