USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Church of England was the established church of the Virginia colony . It came to Virginia as early as 1607, when the first English colonists settled Jamestown, but was not formally established by the House of Burgesses until 1619.

Detailed explanation-2: -When Englishmen established their first permanent North American colony in Virginia in 1607, they carried their religion with them. The crown, the Virginia Company, and–in 1619–the House of Burgesses each confirmed the (Anglican) Church of England as the established church of the colony of Virginia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Significance. It was the first permanent English settlement in the New World at Jamestown. It provided a source of fertile land and great wealth to England in the form of the cash crop, tobacco. With the House of Burgesses, America saw the first institutional instance of representative self-government.

Detailed explanation-4: -Puritans were English Protestants who were committed to “purifying” the Church of England by eliminating all aspects of Catholicism from religious practices. English Puritans founded the colony of Plymouth to practice their own brand of Protestantism without interference.

Detailed explanation-5: -Jamestown was new and it was filled with rebelling colonist. They were Christian/Catholic since Great Britain shunned those who weren’t. The Anglican Church was the official religion of Virginia during colonial times. Other religions were tolerated.