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Significant minorities of Roman Catholics and Jews did not arise until the period between 1880 and 1910. Altogether, Protestants comprised the majority of the population until 2012 when the Protestant share of U.S. population dropped to 48%, thus ending its status as religion of the majority.
Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's population (or 141 million people) in 2019.
Indian Centennial Issue. On October 14-15, 1948, Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma - Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee and Seminole - would gather in Muskogee, Oklahoma to commemorate the centennial of their forced move [the Trail of Tears] by the United States government from their tribal lands on the East Coast to ...
The 37-cent Art of the American Indian commemorative stamps were issued in a souvenir sheet of ten in ten designs on August 21, 2004, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale,...
The theological and religious descendants of the Protestant Reformation arrived in the United States in the early 17th century, shaped American culture in the 18th century, grew dramatically in the 19th century, and continued to be the guardians of American religious life in the 20th century.
- John Fea
- 2017
Postage stamps and postal history of the United States - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Early postal history. Post offices and postmarks. Mail before postage stamps. Provisional issue stamps. First national postage stamps. Issues of the Civil War era. Toggle Issues of the Civil War era subsection. Grills. 1869. Bank notes.
The Indian attacks of the 1750s and early 1760s shocked British officials as well as American colonists. Ever since Columbus’s time, natives had occasionally risen up against encroaching colonists—sometimes with rival colonizers as their allies.
