What Was the Response to the Idea of the Separation

question 137

Multiple Choice

What was the response to the idea of the separation of church and state in America after the Revolution?

• A) Catholics filled the majority of leadership positions in the new nation because the Catholic Church had long enjoyed a privileged status in the colonies.
• B) Because religion had played such a small role in the American colonies, very little changed after the Revolution, and few Americans acknowledged any sort of shift between church and state.
• C) The Anglican Church quickly became the dominant religion in the new nation because the idea of separating church and state had so little popular support.
• D) Both deists and evangelical leaders supported this idea and believed there to be freeing aspects of having a government that functioned outside of religious control.
• E) Religious leaders completely abandoned the traditional definition of Christian liberty to no longer involve submitting to God's will and leading a moral life.

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