SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Spain wanted everyone to be Catholic.
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Protestants were mean people.
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Protestants were friendly with the Native Americans.
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Protestants did not obey laws.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The reformers rejected the authority of the pope as well as many of the principles and practices of Catholicism of that time. The essential tenets of the Reformation are that the Bible is the sole authority for all matters of faith and conduct and that salvation is by God’s grace and by faith in Jesus Christ.
Detailed explanation-2: -The European wars of religion were a series of wars waged in Europe during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. Fought after the Protestant Reformation began in 1517, the wars disrupted the religious and political order in the Catholic countries of Europe, or Christendom.
Detailed explanation-3: -Catholic bishops throughout Europe were ordered to gather up the offensive books, including Protestant Bibles, and burn them in great bonfires. The Church established the Inquisition, a court whose purpose was to punish heretics (those who denied or contradicted Church teachings).
Detailed explanation-4: -Francoist persecution In Franco’s authoritarian Spanish State, Protestantism was deliberately marginalised and persecuted. During the Civil War, the rebel forces persecuted the country’s 30, 000 Protestants, and forced many pastors to leave the country.