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· Estimated Religious Census, 1775: Name || Number || Chief Locale || Congregationalists || 575000 || New England || Anglicans || 500000 || South NY || Presbyterians || 410000 || Frontier || German Churches || 20000 || PA || Dutch Reformed || 75000 || NY, NJ || Quakers || 40000 || PA, NJ, NY || Baptists || 25000 || RI, PA, NJ, DE || Roman Catholics || 25000 || MA, PA || Methodists || 5000 || N/A, scattered || Jews || 2000 || NY, RI ||

· 1701 Yale college founded · 1721 Small pox inoculation introduced · 1732 First edition of Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac · 1734 Jonathan Edwards begins Great Awakening · 1734-1735 Zenger free-press trial in New York · 1738 George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening · 1746 Princeton college founded · 1760 Britain vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures · 1764 Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia Brown College founded · 1766 Rutgers College founded · 1768-1771 Regulator protests · 1769 Dartmouth College founded · In all the colonial churches religion was less fervid in the early eighteenth century · Te established or tax supported churches were conspicuous in 1775 · A considerable segment of the population did not worship in any church ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> When it came to art and culture, colonial Americans were still in thrall to European tastes