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1607 - First Permanent English Settlement in North America

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1607 - First Permanent English Settlement in North America

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Located in Jamestown, Virginia, Anglicanism and the Book of Common Prayer triumphed. The goal was to counter the Catholic presence of Spain and France that was in North America.

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1636 - Rhode Island founded by Roger Williams

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1636 - Rhode Island founded by Roger Williams

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Rhode Island was a refuge for those who did not conform to the Puritan ways in Massachusetts. Anne Hutchinson found her way to this colony in 1638 after she was exiled for challenging the Massachusetts church.

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1760 - Increase in Conversions of Blacks

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1760 - Increase in Conversions of Blacks

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The conversion of Black to the new religion had increased and become noticeable. Christianity was spreading among the slaves and led to two different versions of Christianity. One version was led by their white masters who promoted "stressing humility, obedience, and 'good' behavior" (Albanese). The other version was a form of the religion that Blacks directed themselves.

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Congress gave the official orders this year to honor the Fourth of July. Americans began to celebrate this date with parades, etc.

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Richard Allen and Absalom Jones founded this society in Philadelphia that represented "a nondenominational religious society and mutual aid organization" (Albanese).

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1790 - George Washington visited Rhode Island

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1790 - George Washington visited Rhode Island

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The purpose of the President's visit was to acknowledge the state for signing off the Constitution and to promote the passage of the Bill of Rights.

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1820 - Ashkenazim Newcomers Arrive to the U.S.

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1820 - Ashkenazim Newcomers Arrive to the U.S.

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A wave of Jews of German origin who followed traditions in law and ritual practices from Babylonians and Palestinians started to migrate to the U.S. Before their arrival, the U.S. only had a population of 5,000 Jews. After their arrival, the Jewish population increased by about 200,000 to 400,000 Jews.

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1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

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1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

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AME Zion Church is a historically African-American Christian denomination that was founded in New York City by Peter Williams, Sr., who left the white Methodist church in order to start the Zion Church. Its official name was decided later in 1848.

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Deprived Native Americans of their four remaining Reservations: Buffalo Creek, Alleghany, Cattaraugus, and Tonawanda.

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Three out of the four Reservations would be restored to the Seneca. Buffalo Creek Reservation was not included.

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This term officially came into existence when a conference was held to adopt it by Adventist Christians who were bound together by religious, social, and economic ties. They had their own version of millennialism that developed within nineteenth-century Protestant Christianity.

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Vivekananda introduced Hinduism to Americans in the form of raja (royal) yoga that offered techniques for meditative and mystical practice, which emphasized the three major paths of bhakti, karma, and jnana.

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Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America came into existence after the New York meeting in 1905 with a group called Inter-Church Conference on Federation.

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John T. Scopes was a biology teacher who was accused of violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of any theory that denied the creation of man based on the teachings of the Bible.

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This act abolished the previous immigration quotas that favorited European immigrants over South and East Asians. This allowed Muslim immigrants from more than 60 countries to come to the U.S.

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Chicano priests formed Padres Asociado para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos Sociales which protested against discrimination and racism in the institutional Roman Catholic Church and worked towards finding justice for all Latinx.

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This was a manifestation of the metaphysical religion present in Transcendentalism, Spiritualism, Theosophy, and New Thought. It consisted of ideas about correspondence, the power of the mind, the need for healing, and the presence of a world of energy at their disposal.

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Latina Catholic nuns and laywomen formed this activist group to bring awareness to the changes that need to be done in the church and in society.

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Theravada teachers and Americans founded this society in Barre, Massachusetts. They emphasized the qualities of focus, mental clarity, psychological healing and Buddhist loving-kindness meditation.

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This was an American political group associated with Christian Right and founded by Jerry Falwell. It grew up to 4 million members and changed its name to the Liberty Federation in 1986.