1800-1835
1800
Major revivals in Kentucky, which spread east and initiate a long period of Evangelical dominance in American religion.
1833
Massachusetts becomes the final jurisdiction to renounce state support of religion.
1835
The great French commentator on American life Alexis de Tocqueville publishes Democracy in America, in which he observes that Americans consider religion "indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions."
Reproduced with permission from: James H. Hutson, Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998).
