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Europe’s kingdoms occurred regularly. From 1618 until 1648, the states of central Europe waged a devastating conflict known as the Thirty Years’ War. In the 1530s, King Henry VIII of England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church after a disagreement. He seized control of Church property and assets in England, and handed them over to his newly formed Church of England (also called the Anglican Church). As the Anglican Church took shape, it retained many Catholic practices in worship but adopted some Protestant attitudes, too.

Soldiers loot a conquered city during the Thirty Years’ War (1618 – 1648). Religious warfare in Europe drove colonists to North America, where they sought the freedom to worship as they wanted without being threatened.

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Religious Freedom in the United States