Religion in Colonial America Religion Essay

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As a result, these regions became populated with Protestants who rejected the Church of England and the majority religion in Georgia and North Carolina were Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians. In New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, there were many Congregationalist Church members but they lived side by side with Anglicans, Catholics, German Protestants, and, in Pennsylvania, with the Quakers (Furlong, Margaret, & Sharkey, 1988).

Religious Conflict, Technology, and the Success of Regional Colonial Settlements

On one hand, there was already relative religious plurality in the Colonies even with many Colonists rejecting the mainstream Protestant Church (Furlong, Margaret, & Sharkey, 1988). However, just as in Britain, Catholics experienced widespread persecution based strictly on their religion. Partly, this was due to the fears of some Colonists that if the French or the French Canadians (who were both Catholic) ever challenged Britain for control over the Colonies, the Catholic Colonists might side with them and take up arms against the Protestant Colonists (Furlong, Margaret, & Sharkey, 1988; Nevins & Commager, 1992).

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Religion also played a fundamental role in the eventual rejection of the concept of slavery in some of the Colonies and provided additional motivation to pursue newer technologies that did not rely on slave labor. Generally, this was only part of the reason that the Northern states became more successful than their Southern counterparts because their natural resources and harbors facilitated manufacturing and foreign trade much more than the resources available in the south that left few alternatives besides cotton and tobacco farming. Cotton farming, in particular, was so difficult before the introduction of the cotton gin that those regions may eventually have collapsed economically without it (Lakwete, 2004)......

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