The Jewish community in colonial and early American history.

The Jewish community in colonial and early American history.

• This act, not to be confused with the Jew bill, allowed Jews to be a resident in Britan.
• This bill also allowed the jew to move in without having to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion.
• This law was shut down after one year because of its limited consequences and restricted scope of the law. These flaws caused its abrogation by parliament.

• After the Jews made themselves feel at home they created synagogues.
• Charelston, Savannah, New York, Philadelphia, and Newport all had their own synagogue.
• The new synagogues were inspiring to other countries because America was the first country to allow other religions other than christianity

• In the summers of 1654-1656 Jews gained their right to live and work in America.
• The first Jew to legally own land was Asser Levy Asser's purchase caused many other Jews to buy land.
• 23 Jews were practically forced to settle in America after a Spanish Pirate group conquered their ship while they were on a conquest

• In Britan Jews gained a limited amount of citizenship because of the Plantation Act of 1740.
• Jews could only have this citizenship if they had lived in America for 7 years in a row and swore an oath.
• With the Plantation act Jews earned political rights but not economic rights.

• The first Jews to arrive in America were the Sephardi Jews.
• They arrived in New Amsterdam, which is now New york city.
• As soon as they arrived they faced unjust hatred and were judged harshly.

The first synagogues in america

The arrival

The plantaion act

Thier rights to settle

The Jewish Naturalisation act

1753

1740

1654-1565

1650

1730

The Jewish community in colonial and early American history.

• When Rabbi Morris Raphall referenced the bible in a political setting it affected people greatly
• This really opened the eyes of christians to realize that christianity isn't the only widespread religion
• This made Jews feel more included in America but caused lots of backlash towards Judaism.

• Adolf Hitler became president and began sending out propaganda about the hatred of Jews.
• Hitler began to turn most of the country against all Jews.
• Eventually Adolf began to collect jews and bring them to concentration camps where they would be tortured to death.

• The first amendment of the bill of rights contains freedom of religion.
• This helped jews to feel more welcome in America.
• This new found amendment encouraged more jews to travel to America.

• This bill allowed Jewish residents of America to hold public office
• This new found privilege made many Jews feel welcome and seen in America.
• This act evened out the privilege difference between Christians and Jews.

• On April 30th Hitler died
• The Nazis of Germany surrendered in May of 1945.
• The Nazi's made all of the jews walk until they died so that they could get rid of their evidence.

the United States Congress was opened with a prayer for the first time.

the holocuast comes to an end

America now has freedom of religion

The holocaust begins

jew bill

1945

1933

1826

1791

1860

Bibliography

The first card's information was found at https://icsresources.org/

The fourth card's information was found at https://www.cjh.org/

The seconds card's information was found at https://www.ebsco.com/

The fith card's information was found at https://brill.com/

The third card's information was found at https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/

The sixth card's information was found at https://thepanorama.shear.org/

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The seventh card's information was found at https://brill.com/

The tenth card's information was found at https://www.ushmm.org/

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The eigth card's information was found at https://forward.com/

All of the card's timeline information was found at https://www.americanjewisharchives.org/

The ninth card's information was found at https://www.ushmm.org/