Four specific instances where religion was a key factor in us history

1.) The Witch Trials, where women were accused and executed for witchcraft in the late 1600's, was based off of pure religious belief that witches were women that practiced dark magic for Satan himself.

2.) The original US colonies were based on the fact that the colonists felt persecuted in England for the different religious views that they held from the English.

3.) Slaves that were brought to the early years of the US were often forced to practice forms of religion that their master viewed righteous, which was usually a form of Christianity.

4.) Native Americans in the past, had been persecuted and hunted down for their different beliefs, ironically enough. Even if the Colonists left England for religious freedom, that didn't stop them from chasing down the Natives for their widely different beliefs after time.

in the 1800s, locomotives powered by steam made transportation faster and cheaper. the resulting rapid growth of railroads led to the connection of the atlantic and pacific railroad in oklahoma city in 1897.

in the last years of the century, the improvement of steam-based engines the expansion and growth of railroads. this growth increased when the companies started to build and expand, such as the atlantic and pacific railroad, which connected new mexico with california, and missouri with oklahoma. many of these new networks were built in oklahoma, and these changes transportation henceforward.

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