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This 6 page paper explores some of the religious and cultural conflicts in America from the Colonial period through the beginning of the Civil War. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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todays society was not always that way. This paper discusses some of the religion and cultural conflict that occurred during the pre-Revolutionary period through the beginning of the Civil War.
Discussion Patricia Bonomi, Professor Emeritus at New York University, is an historian; in an article on America she explains how religiously diverse the colonies were. What she calls the
"Middle Colonies" (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey) "became a stage for the western worlds most complex experience with religious pluralism" (Bonomi, 2008). Colonies in New England were mainly
shaped by Puritans, while the South was settled mostly by English Anglicans (Bonomi, 2008). By these mid-Atlantic colonies were settled mostly by people from European nations that "had been deeply
disrupted by the Protestant Reformation and the religious wars that followed in its wake" (Bonomi, 2008). Among the religious faiths represented in these colonies were "Dutch Mennonites, French Huguenots, German
Baptists, and Portuguese Jews" as well as larger groups of "Dutch Reformed, Lutherans, Quakers, and Anglicans" (Bonomi, 2008). Native Americans and African Americans also added their religious traditions to this
mix (Bonomi, 2008). In New York, religious settlement followed the "ethnic configuration of the colony," in which geography played a large part (Bonomi, 2008). "Wherever the Dutch settled, as in
the Hudson River Valley, the Dutch Reformed Church predominated ... German Reformed and Lutherans spread out along the Mohawk River west of Albany" (Bonomi, 2008). Congregationalists settled on Long Island;
French Huguenots at New Rochelle in Westchester County; New York City was even more diverse (Bonomi, 2008). In New Jersey, 55 congregations were Presbyterian; 39 were Quakers and 21 were
Church of England, with Dutch Reformed, Baptist and Seventh Day Baptists and others spreading rapidly throughout the colony (Bonomi, 2008). Pennsylvania, of course, was home to the Quakers-in fact it
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