In New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, there were many Congregationalist Church members but they lived side by side with Anglicans, Catholics, German Protestants, and, in Pennsylvania, with the Quakers (Furlong, Margaret, & Sharkey, 1988). Religious Conflict, Technology, and the Success of Regional Colonial Settlements

On one hand, there was already relative religious plurality in the Colonies even with many Colonists rejecting the mainstream Protestant Church (Furlong, Margaret, & Sharkey, 1988). However, just as in Britain, Catholics experienced widespread persecution based strictly on their religion. Partly, this was due to the fears of some Colonists that if the French or the French Canadians (who were both Catholic) ever challenged Britain for control over the Colonies, the Catholic Colonists might side with them and take up arms against the Protestant Colonists (Furlong, Margaret, & Sharkey, 1988; Nevins & Commager, 1992).

Religion also played a fundamental role in the eventual rejection of the...

Generally, this was only part of the reason that the Northern states became more successful than their Southern counterparts because their natural resources and harbors facilitated manufacturing and foreign trade much more than the resources available in the south that left few alternatives besides cotton and tobacco farming. Cotton farming, in particular, was so difficult before the introduction of the cotton gin that those regions may eventually have collapsed economically without it (Lakwete, 2004).
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Furlong, P., Margaret, S., and Sharkey, D. (1988). America Yesterday: A New

Nation (Revised). New York: Sadlier.

Lakwete, A. (2004). Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum

America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University.

Nevins, J. And Commager, H.S. (1992). A Pocket History of the United States. New York:…