History/Religion 345 – RELIGION IN AMERICA – October 24, 2005  

NEW AMERICANS  

Note: America after 1865 was dramatically different from America before 1865.  That earlier American had been rural, small-town, farming, low-tech, slow-paced, and more or less homogeneous.  But now – America had become urban, big-city, higher tech, faster paced, and drastically more diverse than ever.  Where did religion fit in all this?  

TERMS TO KNOW  

1. Scale of immigration to America
2. “Nativism”
3. “Quota system”
4. Samuel F. B. Morse
5. “Know Nothing Party”
6. “Continental Sunday”
7. Parochial education
8. “Syllabus of Errors” (1864)
9. Cardinal James Gibbons
10. Gibbons, Faith of our Fathers (1876)
11. Christian Americanization
12. Catholic educational system
13. Parliament of Religions (1893)
14. Leo XIII, “Testem Benevolentiae”
15. Young Men’s Buddhist Association (1898)
16. Lutherans in America
17. Jewish immigrants
18. Eastern Orthodox immigrants
19. “Two great challenges’ (277)

 

QUESTION:

 The huge flood of immigration from, say, the 1890s to 1914, dramatically transformed the U.S.  How, specifically, did all this immigration transform American religion?

 

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