| A | B |
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| CAUSE: The printing press helped to spread ideas critical of the Church. | EFFECT: More people became aware of Protestant belief systems. |
| CAUSE: European leaders saw the Pope as interfering in political affairs through local churches. | EFFECT: By becoming Protestant, European leaders limited the Pope's political influence. |
| CAUSE: People disliked having to pay taxes to the Church in Rome. | EFFECT: People were more willing to support Reformation ideas that ended these taxes. |
| CAUSE: Only clergy were allowed to interpret the Bible. | EFFECT: Reformers translated the Bible so that people could interpret it for themselves. |
| Europeans' religious beliefs influenced... | the spread of religions in the Americas. |
| Spain, Portugal, and France were the main... | Catholic settlers of the Americas. |
| England was the main... | Protestant country that settled in the Americas. |
| One legacy of the Reformation is... | the division of western Christianity into Catholicism & Protestantism. |
