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Massachusetts Bay Colony
Called for Puritan ideology (John Winthrop's "City Upon a Hill") -
Rhode Island Colony
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson. Religious freedom -
Halfway Covenant
used by puritans to get more people to join churches -
Colony of Pennsylvania
Founded by William Penn for Quakers, religious freedom -
Great Awakening
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2nd Great Awakening
in response to market rev -
Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau. Argued for self-spirituality/search for spiritual truth -
Manifest Destiny
People believed that it was their "god given right" to expand westward -
Shakers
utopian communities -
Know-Nothing Party
Against "old immigrants" (Irish and German). Very anti-Catholic -
Social Gospel
during progressive era, people tried to help poor immigrants/ laborers through the bible -
KKK
Mainly racist, but also against catholicism and jews -
Bible Belt
southern areas that were heavily religious, usually pro-segregation -
Scopes-Monkey Trial
Against teaching evolution in schools (ruled that teaching evolution is illegal) -
moral majority
jerry faldwell, etc