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And who were the people who revolted? (In the American Revolution) The first group, we might as well look at, are settlers such as the Pilgrims, Puritans (Huguenots), Quakers and many others from all over Europe, who had left the Old Country for religious reasons, they had little or no reason to go back home. Where did they come from? England, Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Germany. How did this religious group form? Thanks to what Martin Luther started first the "Protestant" Lutheran Church split up from the Catholic Church. Than many other groups emerged, based upon the Protestant Church but finding their own interpretations of the scriptures. In England it was the Church of England(2) , which went through drastic changes. Offsprings of the Church of England are Anglican, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist and Quakers. Back then fighting between Christian groups became a common problem. Wars were fought for centuries between Catholics and non-Catholics. The most famous is still going strong as I write this. That one is in Ireland. During the Inquisition the Spanish fought every non-believer and the motto was "become a Catholic or die." Luckily the Spanish Armada was trashed (1588) by a storm and therefor unable to take England and topple the "Protestant Queen" as they called the reigning Queen Elizabeth I.
1620 In 1620 the Pilgrims (English Farmers from Scrooby Manor) sailed for Virginia aboard the Mayflower. It is said, they felt the Church of England was too catholic. Because of an error in navigation the Pilgrims landed in New England instead of Virginia.
1629 The Puritans (a movement which came out of the reformation looking to purify the English Church) received the Massachusetts Bay Company charter directly from the King. By 1640 almost 16,000 men and women immigrated from England to Mass.
1634 The first settlers who arrived in Maryland were mostly
persecuted Catholics.
The Church of England is the ancient national church of the land. Its structures emerged from the missionary work of St Augustine, sent from Rome in 597. However, from the work of Celtic missonaries in the north, there is evidence of an organised Christian presence in London as early as the fourth century. Throughout the Middle Ages the Church was in communion with the See of Rome, but in the sixteenth century with the Reformation, it separated from Rome and rejected the authority of the Pope who was replaced by the English sovereign as head of the Church of England.
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