Religion in the New World | Teaching with Primary Sources

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Maryland Public Television MPT Teaching with Primary Sources primary sources Taino Christopher Columbus Puritans Cotton Mather Richard Mather witchcraft Salem witches New Spain Aztecs Aztec religion Jesuits Catholicism Spanish explorers Pocahontas Christianity Pilgrims Plymouth New World Plymouth Colony Colonial religion
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History-Social Science
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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Religion in the New World | Teaching with Primary Sources

This inquiry kit features Library of Congress sources about the power of religion for people in the New World.

Thinking Questions

  • What were some of the religions in early America?
  • Why did the Europeans try to convince the natives to follow a new religion?
  • How did some of the religious groups in the New World act as badly as the religious groups they left in Europe?
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PBS Learning Media

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