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What was the first religion brought to the Americas from Europe?
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Puritans when they landed in 1620 in Mass and set up Plymouth colony.
The first European religion to be brought to the Americas with lasting effect was Christianity, and specifically Roman Catholicism, in the Caribbean, Mexico and South America, beginning with Columbus' expedition of 1492. Various Protestant sects also established early presence in the English Colonies starting with the settlement of Virginia in 1609.
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