USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Jesuits were zealous missionaries who played a major role in evangelizing the world during the Age of Exploration. They had a strong presence throughout the Americas.

Detailed explanation-2: -What’s more, by giving a people education, missionaries not only taught them Christian beliefs, they also gave them tools that they could put to any purpose they wished.

Detailed explanation-3: -History has dubbed Puritan missionary Eliot as “the apostle to the Indians” and celebrated him as the founder of the American missionary movement. Many Native Americans and some historians today see him as an agent of cultural genocide. The descendants of those first Christian converts, however, tell a different story.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Spanish empire sponsored the earliest missionary activity in the West, when the Franciscans established missions in California in 1541 and New Mexico in 1581.

Detailed explanation-5: -After the United States gained control of the West, residents of the region continued to connect religious and racial⁄ethnic identities. Since at least the nineteenth century, western residents’ religious identities have run the gamut, from Confucian and Buddhist to Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish.