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	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Catholic Emancipation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION [Catholic Emancipation] term applied to the process by which Roman Catholics in the British Isles were relieved in the late 18th and early 19th cent.
		In 1791 the Roman Catholic Relief Act repealed most of the disabilities in Great Britain, provided Catholics took an oath of loyalty, and in 1793 the army, the navy, the universities, and the judiciary were opened to Catholics, although seats in Parliament and some offices were still denied.
		The Act of Settlement is still in force, however, and Catholics are excluded from the throne.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
		Later, in May, 1879, the Irish Catholic Colonization Association of the United States was established at Chicago, under the auspices of various archbishops, with the co-operation of eminent Irish Catholic laymen, and during the ensuing decade it assisted many immigrants to find homes in the Western states.
		Of the relations of the Roman Catholic Irish to the Church in America it is almost needless to speak.
		In places were Catholics were in a majority, a parish priest might be appointed, but the tithes of the Protestants should be held in reserve for the support of the Protestant clergy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08132b.htm (15857 words)

	Vermont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chittenden governed the nascent republic from 1778 to 1789 and from 1790 to 1791.
		The largest single religious body in the state is the Roman Catholic Church.
		Some have attempted to explain away Vermont's contradictory politics by arguing that the state is a haven for affluent vacationers and retirees from strong liberal metropolitan regions such as Boston and New York, and that the financial power of such persons dominate the politics.
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	History of the Jews in Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		They found a certain degree of protection with the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who claimed the right of possession and protection of all the Jews of the empire in virtue of being the successor of the emperor Titus, who was said to have acquired the Jews as his private property.
		Every act of his life was to remind him of his religious duties and stimulate him to mystic contemplation.
		In 1778 his friend David Friendänder founded the Jewish free school in Berlin, this being the first Jewish educational institution in Germany in which the Entire instruction, in Scripture as well as in general science, was carried on in German only.
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	Catholic Almanac Online
		John Carroll and a Catholic leader during the American Revolution and the creation of the Constitution; supported the ratification of the Constitution; one of four Catholics chosen to represent American Catholics in congratulating George Washington on his election as president.
		Goldstein, David (1870-1958): Convert from Judaism and prominent Catholic layperson; born in England and raised in a Jewish family and as a Socialist; converted in 1905 and became opponent of Socialism; cofounder (with Martha Moore Avery) of the Catholic Truth Guild in 1917; founder, Catholic Campaigners for Christ, 1936.
		of Richmond from 1878-88; rector of the Catholic University of America from 1888-97; consultor of Congregation for Propagation of the Faith, 1897-1900; opposed the condemnation of the Knights of Labor and was an ally of the work of John Ireland and John Gibbons.
	www.catholicheritage.com /catholicalmanac/catholicspast.asp (8565 words)

	"The Trail of Blood . . ." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The persecutions by the established Roman Catholic Church are hard, cruel and perpetual.
		Hoping for some relief from their own bitter lot, they came out of their hiding places and fought bravely with the reformers, but they were doomed to fearful disappointment.
		This act permitted the worship of all denominations in England except two--the Catholics and the Unitarians.
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	Top20Oregon.com - Your Top20 Guide to Oregon!
		Settlement increased due to the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, in conjunction with the forced relocation of the native population to Indian Reservations in Oregon.
		In 1778, Jonathan Carver used Oregon to label the Great River of the West in his book Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America.
		The poet William Cullen Bryant took the name from Carver's book and used it in his poem "Thanatopsis" to refer to the recent discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; this use helped establish it in modern use.
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