i need help in US history?

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how did the Protestant Reformation in Europe effect colonization in America? i know its like about martin luther and how they formed the protestant church because of king henry the 8th but i don't know how that effected american colonization.
 
The Protestant Reformation in Europe

Okay. The Reformation--you correctly connect this with Martin Luther. Henry the 8th was something else; that was when he formed the Anglican (Episcopalian in America) Church because the pope refused to allow him to divorce his wife.

In Europe in those days, the rule was "eus regio, eus religio" (his the region, his the religion). The people might have sympathized with one side of this sharply divided conflict, while the ruler might choose the other. If the ruler picked one side, the people who chose the other side were forced to move to an area where the ruler had chosen the side they sympathized with.

When King Henry broke away from the Catholic Church, he basically forced all of his subjects to become Anglicans. The puritans refused to do so and emigrated.

--Reggie
 
People starting reading the bible and making their own conclusions and then forming their own groups. then they started wanting to oppress others who didn't agree with them and then their was a CounterReformation and they became persecuted so they left for greener
shores ( or so they thought) and when they got there, they started the same nonsense all over again in some places which is why the founders of the US ( although Christians) were emphatic about the separation of Church and State, Live and let Live.
 
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