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| Samuel Simon Schmucker | He was instrumental in the early life of the General Synod and the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg. |
| Samuel Seabury | He was the first American Anglican Bishop. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | He was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorn | He provided a profound reflection on his Puritan heritage in the Scarlet Letter in 1850 |
| Joseph Smith | The founder of the Latter Day Saints |
| Angel Moroni | The Angel who revealed to Joseph Smith what is now known as the Book of Mormon |
| Dwight L. Moody | One of the most influential religious figures during the Victorian decades |
| Fanny Crosby | The person who derived a whole new genre of music known as the gospel hymn. |
| Ann Douglas | She wrote The Feminization of America |
| Anglicans | The Church of England |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | An organization founded in 1874 that spearheaded the crusade for prohibition |
| H L Menkon | The agnostic journalist who covered the Scopes Monkey Trial for the Baltimore Sun. |
| Horace Bushnell | The Hartford Congregationalist minister whose writings who helped create a whole new climate in American theology. |
| Higher Criticism | A school of thought that regarded the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures not as a homogeneous, unified, divinely inspired pair of documents but rather as a collection of religious texts that are not necessarily divinely inspired or inerrant. |
| Fundamentalism | The movement that countered the Modernist movement over the Battle over the Bible |
| Walter Rauschenbasch | He began his ministry at "Hell's Kitchen" and was a leading proponent of the Social Gospel. |
| Henry Emerson Fosdick | He preached the famous sermon "Shall the Fundamentalist Win". |
| Charles Finney | During thr 1830's he was a professor and president at Oberlin College and was famous for his revival lectures |
| John Nelson Darby | He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism. |
| Assembly of God | The largest Pentecostal demonination in the world |
| rapture | I belief that adheres to the idea that believers will be bodily resurrected right before the start of the Great Tribulation. |
| The Watchtower | The publication of the Jehovah Witnesses |
| glossolalia | The phenomenon of speaking in tongues |
| William Seymour | The preacher at the Azuza Street Revival |
| Aimee Semple McPherson | The person who started the Church of the Four Square Gospel, one of the largest Pentecostal deminations in the world. |
| Orthodoxy | A distinct branch of Judaism that began to take shape in America with a meeting of twenty-six congregations in 1879. |
| Conservative Judaism | The most distinctly American Jewish tradition and originated in an attempt to provide an alternative to the polarization of the Hebrew Union trajf banquet helped to bring about. |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | The largest Lutheran denomination in America |
| Lutheran Church Missouri Synod | The largest conservative Lutheran denomination in America |
| United Methodist Church | The largest of the Mainline denominations |
| Jerry Falwell | The founder of the Moral Majority. |
| Shahada | The first pillar of Islam that states that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is his messanger. |
| mosque | The traditional house of worship in Islam. |
| Hart-Celler Immigration of Law of 1965 | This law had one of the most profound impacts on the religious makeup of the United States of any federal legislation in the twentieth century. |
