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While iniquity was always a significant part of America, it was generally held as shameful and overall resisted by Church and State.  Early on, in a pamphlet for Europeans titled ''Information to Those Who Would Remove to America'' (1754), Benjamin Franklin wrote, in part:  

While iniquity was always a significant part of America, it was generally held as shameful and overall resisted by Church and State.  Early on, in a pamphlet for Europeans titled ''Information to Those Who Would Remove to America'' (1754), Benjamin Franklin wrote, in part:  

{{cquote|...serious religion, under its various denominations, is not only tolerated, but respected and practiced.  Atheism is unknown there; Infidelity rare and secret; so that persons may live to a great age in that country without having their piety shocked by meeting with either an Atheist or an Infidel. And the Divine Being seems...pleased to favor the whole country.<ref>John Gould Curtis, ''American history told by contemporaries ...'', Volume 3,p. 26 </ref>}}  

{{cquote|...serious religion, under its various denominations, is not only tolerated, but respected and practiced.  Atheism is unknown there; Infidelity rare and secret; so that persons may live to a great age in that country without having their piety shocked by meeting with either an Atheist or an Infidel. And the Divine Being seems to have manifested His approbation of the mutual forbearance and kindness by which the different sects treat each other, and by the remarkable prosperity with which He has been please to favor the whole country.<ref>John Gould Curtis, ''American history told by contemporaries ...''. Volume 3, p. 26 </ref>}}  

During certain periods of America's growth moral degradation increased America, and a strong correlation was felt between loss of Christian religious devotion and the increase in iniquity. America's faith saw revival as a result of the [[First Great Awakening]] in the 1730s and 1740, and which is held to have began the [[Evangelical Christian]] movement. During the period of approximately 1800-1830 the [[Second Great Awakening]] took place, and the [[Third Great Awakening]] occurring from the late 1850's to the early 1900's. These revivals had a profound spiritual and civil impact on Christian faith within America and [[England]], and worked toward the abolition of the well-entrenched historical institution of slavery.  

During certain periods of America's growth moral degradation increased America, and a strong correlation was felt between loss of Christian religious devotion and the increase in iniquity. America's faith saw revival as a result of the [[First Great Awakening]] in the 1730s and 1740, and which is held to have began the [[Evangelical Christian]] movement. During the period of approximately 1800-1830 the [[Second Great Awakening]] took place, and the [[Third Great Awakening]] occurring from the late 1850's to the early 1900's. These revivals had a profound spiritual and civil impact on Christian faith within America and [[England]], and worked toward the abolition of the well-entrenched historical institution of slavery.