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74 N Market St A, Charleston, SC 29401, USA

The religious history of the United States began with European settlers. Not counting some temporary settlements that left no permanent impact, the earliest influences arrived with the English Pilgrim settlers who arrived in Massachusetts in 1620. Their Protestant faith motivated their movement as a community where they could practice in peace. The great majority of the settlers came from Protestant backgrounds in Britain and the Continent, with a small proportion of Catholics and a few Jews in port cities. The English and the German Americans brought along their distinctive Protestant denominations. Several colonies had an established church, which meant that local tax money went to support local parishes. Freedom of religion became a basic American principle, and numerous new movements emerged, many of which became established denominations in their own right. Historians debate how influential Christianity was in the era of the American Revolution. Many of the founding fathers were active in a local church; some of them, such as Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington had Deist sentiments. Experts, researchers and authors have referred to the United States as a Protestant nation or founded on Protestant principles, specifically emphasizing its Calvinist heritage.The First Great Awakening, the nation's first major religious revival in the middle of the 18th century injected new vigor into Christian faith. Religion in the period of the Second Great Awakening became increasingly involved in social reform movements, such as anti-slavery. Most of the denominations set up colleges to train new generations of leaders and nearly all were founded as Christian institutions. Later the Roman Catholics also set up colleges and a separate parochial school system to avoid the Protestant tone of the public schools. Black Americans, once freed from slavery, were very active in forming their own churches, most of them Baptist or Methodist, and giving their ministers both moral and political leadership roles. In the late 19th and early 20th century most major denominations started overseas missionary activity. The Mainline Protestant denominations promoted the Social Gospel in the early 20th century, calling on Americans to reform their society; the demand for prohibition of liquor was especially strong. After 1970, the mainline denominations lost membership and influence. The more conservative evangelical, fundamentalist, and charismatic denominations grew rapidly until the 1990s and helped form the Religious Right in politics. The Catholic element grew steadily, especially from Hispanic immigration after 1970. As Western Europe secularized in the late 20th century, the Americans largely resisted the trend, so that by the 21st century the US was one of the most strongly Christian of all major nations. Religiously based moral positions on issues such as abortion and homosexuality played a hotly debated role in American politics.
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