Early Virginia Religious Petitions

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Chronology of Religious Development in America:
1607-1835

1683-1757

1683

Members of German Protestant sects begin arriving in Pennsylvania, attracted by religious liberty.

1689

English Parliament passes the Toleration Act, which improves the conditions of dissenters throughout the American colonies.

ca. 1735-45

The Great Awakening, part of a religious revival throughout the English speaking world, invigorates and polarizes religious life in America.

1755

Separate Baptists, a product of the Great Awakening, begin proselytizing in the South.

Reproduced with permission from: James H. Hutson, Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998).

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