What was the religion of the American Identity of the 1700s?

Question

american history

Answer 1

Puritan in New England, Presbyterian and Quaker in the middle colonies, Catholic in Maryland and Anglican in the South.

Answer 2

Religion was varied by state and Royal charter. For example... Maryland was founded by the Lord Baltimore who was a Catholic. Subsequently the colony became a Catholic refuge (though that did really last very long). In the New England states there were many Puritans, Congregationalists, and various other Protestant denominations. Rhode Island even had a large Jewish population. As one moved south there was the Quaker refuge of Pennsylvania and the southern states of Virginia and North Carolina which were largely Anglican. Keep in mind that many African slaves also brought over their tribal and ancestral religions. Charlestown (Charleston) South Carolina became a Huguenot refuge in its early colonial days, and of course the Scotch/Irish influx to the Appalachian frontier included a large number of Presbyterians. Of course the Native Americans largely continued the animist beliefs of their ancestors, though some did adopt Christianity.
I'm not sure what you are getting at when you say the American Identity. If this includes what today constitutes the United States, then there were also a large number of Catholics in French and Spanish territory. The gist of this whole answer is that religion was varied throughout the colonies, and it would be difficult to pin point what if any religious identity the colonists would have seen themselves as having.

Answer 3

"What was the dominant religion in American in the 1700s?" (I've taken the liberty of re-writing your question)

There were many varieties of Protestantism (Calvinism, Zwinglism, and later, Quakers, Amish, Shakers and so on), but also C. of E. (Church of England), later called Episcopalian in this country.

There was also Judaism, of course; there are still many synagogues standing from that time.

Catholics were relative newcomers, and were not seen in great numbers until the unfortunate famine in Ireland.





Um....can I assume that you have a history text?

Answer 4

Puritan-- which is Protestant Christianity.