What role has Catholics had in the formation of the United States?

Question

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Answer 1

Christopher Columbus, who was a Catholic, sailed under the flag of Spain, which was a Catholic country.

The first settlement in North America was St. Augustine in Florida, which was settled by the Spanish, long before Jamestown.

The California missions (Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, etc.) were all founded by Spanish Catholics.

The early French explorers, Marquette and Joliet, were Catholic.

At least one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was Catholic.

For more of the early stuff, go here:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/northam.html

Answer 2

Well, for one very important piece. Just about the whole United States can be said to have been thanks to one man, --- Kit Carson, who was Catholic. Also all of the Catholic Priests who settled in small Church's all over the West and helped to bring civilization to the West. There will be lots of nay sayers but, it is true.

The above post is false. People did not escape Catholicism when they came here. They escaped the Church in England Primarily it was the Puritans who came here trying to escape the Church in England. Don't people here in this site read any history or do they just make stuff up and hope the gullible people will buy into their garbage?

Answer 3

little or no and none with reference to the textual content of the structure, america became predominantly formed on principals of freedom from oppression from the leaders of the international locations from which the unique colonists emigrated from and/or the religious denominations they were breaking ties from. the most well-known party being the Pilgrims who left England and later Holland to come back to the hot global installation the Mayflower Compact that could develop into between the writings from which the announcement of Independence and structure could later be in line with. The more suitable significant foundational record became "the needed Orders (the first structure of Connecticut) of which each and each and each and each delegate contained in the Constitutional Congress of the 1780s era a reproduction became given. truly some the founding fathers who were church members belonged both to the Puritan church contained in the hot England colonies and the Anglican/Episcopalian Church contained in the Southern Colonies, George Washington having attended the latter. If any of the founders of the country were Catholic that they had as little function as the different non-Protestants related to moral and non secular foundations, alongside with Haym Salomon, a Jew who helped finance the ingenious attempt.

Answer 4

very little, America was first colonised by peoples escaping from Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestant churches in Europe.

The Anglican Church of England was the first official church, and wars with Catholic France ensured that America was predominantly Protestant to start off with.

After Independence, the majority of settlers in control were Anglican, Lutheran, or Dutch Walloon protestant. Wars of expansion with Spain, meant that the Catholic church did not really get much of a hold in the country until the 1860's. There are some exceptions however.

The Church of England established itself in the English colonies on the North American continent in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. The Episcopal Church was formally separated from the Church of England in 1789 so that clergy would not be required to accept the supremacy of the British monarch. When the clergy of Connecticut elected Samuel Seabury as their bishop, he sought consecration in England. The Oath of Supremacy prevented English bishops from consecrating a non-English bishop, so Seabury went to Scotland; the non-juring Scottish bishops consecrated him in Aberdeen on November 14, 1784, making him the first Episcopal bishop outside the British Isles.

Answer 5

Look into the French territories that we aquired in the Loisiana Purchase (French are Catholic) and then we kept expanding westward taking most of the western parts of US from Mexico (Mexicans are Catholic) Also Maryland was made for Catholics. So everything west of the Mississippi River was once Catholic and Indian.

Answer 6

They formed Maryland and Irish people had the 2nd highest immigration rate (who are catholics)

Answer 7

Here is a couple I found.

http://www.nd.edu/~cushwa/20thCentury.htm

http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/bookdetail.asp?book_id=4020

Answer 8

starting a civil war

Answer 9

they were the ones who cleaned the toilets

Answer 10

i have no clue but look on wikapedia