The History Of America

No person or persons...shall from henceforth be any waies troubled, molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof.

The U.S culture is mostly European, but it otherwise influenced by a number of immigrants. It also has its own social and cultural characteristics, such as music, arts,

Some people are not allowed to practice or even talk about their own religion.“Lawyer Teresa Nelson said Nathaniel "has the right to pray on his own time." But he doesn't have the right to pray with "a captive audience of kids on a school bus." Doing that, she said, is forbidden by the First Amendment.”(Tribune, 2013, N/A) “Nathaniel said he talked to parents as he saw them at bus stops. He let them know he was a pastor and asked if it would be Ok for him to pray with the kids on the bus. “The parents I talked with, they were in agreement that I was doing fine.”(Tribune, 2013, N/A) This quote shows that people are still not allowed to pray to their “God” anywhere they want or at work and school.

This case emphasizes the importance of the right to freedom of religion, as disallowing an individual to participate in either a citizenship ceremony, or court proceedings solely based on their religious garments is not only discrimination but prevents justice from taking its

by clergy (priests, ministers, mullahs), a state in which civil law is the same as religious law, a

It is said that the U.S. is the country built by immigrants. Technically the first “immigrants” that arrived in what is now the U.S. and Canada arrived around 12,000 to 30,000 years ago from Asia by crossing the Bering Strait. They then started migrating East and South, eventually populating the continent all the way down to what is now South America. Evidently, there was many more migratory waves from Asia that contributed to the Native American population. It wasn’t until 1492, when Christopher Columbus arrived to the Americas that European colonization began in the Western Hemisphere.

The beginning of the story of the United States starts like this: a group of Spanish foreigners were traveling across the oceans in order to find the so called new world. In their journey to this world, they stumbled upon new land and decided to visit the land. During their visit, they encountered the native Americans and came to amicable terms with them. They later went back to their country to tell about their founding to their king and upon hearing the news, more people started migrating to this new land. After the first wave of immigrants from Spain, a new wave came England. This wave of settlers was fleeing religious persecution. After finding a new home on these lands, the settlers started pushing and killing the native Americans out of their own territory. After years of constant war between the native Americans and these new settlers continued and the settlers were able to push the natives away enough to not have to worry about them. The settlers turned around declared war on their British overseers and out of that war came the declaration of independence. The country of United States of America was formed but at loss of the native Americans who were basically considered the settlers while the US were in contrast their English overseers. This type of action is not only highly hypocritical; it is highly prevalent throughout the history of the United States of America.

In “Christian Nation or Pluralistic Culture: Religion in American Life” by Charles H. Lippy, he writes about the early European immigrants that came to the United States with different religious backgrounds. According to Lippy, despite different faiths, these groups got along because of the similarity of their faith. This cause for the need to separate church and state, for it would have allowed advantages and benefits for one faith over the other. Despite this, problem is still arose. People have disagreed with laws that have been put in place in favor of one faith over the other. For example, in a town by where I live in New Jersey, the Blue Law is enforced. This is all retail stores being closed on Sundays due to religious belief that the sabbath day is a holy day of rest. However, this excludes other faiths that hold Saturday as the sabbath day. This allows the undertone that Christianity is above other faiths within our law system. It also creates a Christian normativity within our society. Lippy writes that the growth of different people and the strengthening of different faiths in numbers, “signals the

The United States of America is defined by various documents that display the values and ideas that the United States stands behind. These documents, while numerous and varying in topic, share many common themes and ideas. Topics for these documents have also been formed by sources not from the United States such as the Enlightenment or the English Bill of Rights. Understanding these connections is important as they are a major part of American history. By understanding these connections you can better understand not just the history of the United States, but also the history of the world. Connections such as those between the Enlightenment and the U.S. Constitution, the Northwest Ordinance and the Bill of Rights, plus the Magna Carta and

Many people often wonder about religion and ponder the questions of what it is and how it affects us. To start off, religion is a belief, it is to believe in a God or Gods. Nine out of ten Americans believe in God, according to Guallop.com Religion has impacted our government in many ways such as family stability, happiness, social breakdowns, and policy implications.

Imagine you are at church on Sunday morning praying, when all of a sudden the cops pull up. The cops demand to come into the church and take all the people that are praying. The cops grab you by the arm, you have no choice but to go with them. You ask the cop why are you being arrested the cop replies, “You are not supposed to be following this religion.”

If you’ve ever been on vacation with my family, you know we’ll stop at a historic site without a doubt. Living in Virginia, a state chock-full of American history, it’s common to turn down the wrong road and stumble upon a battlefield or historical landmark. We’ve travelled up and down the east coast, as far north as Ellis Island in New York and as far south as the “90 Miles To Cuba” monument in Key West. When I got my first camera in middle school, I began to take pictures of the places we’d go, mostly the ever popular, ‘lie on the floor and put subject in focus’ pictures. Rather reflecting in a moment, I was saving it for later.

Orthodox Christian religious education is compulsory in public schools, while the constitution bans proselytizing by other faiths. Greek Orthodox Church officials exercise their legal power to prevent the state from recognizing Dodecatheon as a "religion." This seemingly bureaucratic designation means followers are legally prevented from building a temple, opening an office, or worshiping at their holy

America was built upon the dreams of many and has many layers to its story. It is a land built upon the “melting pot” theory, where the discovery of new cultures and societies, bringing their own languages, customs, traditions, religions and beliefs, made us who we are today. A country built on the ideals of freedom and liberty. But with any new idea, come the trials and tribulations associated with it. The discovery and creation of the United States of America was not exception to this rule.

Although Britain's North American colonies had enjoyed considerable prosperity during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, beginning with the Stamp Act in 1765 the British government began to put pressures on them, largely in the form of taxes and new trade restrictions, that increasingly drew resistance. One big reason that the loyal British citizens in North America were transformed into rebels is because of the taxes. It was not the prices of the tax, because Britain had one of the lowest taxes in the world at that time, it was the fact that Parliament had so much representation over them. The British Empire was a mercantile market. They wanted to control everything that was going on in the