Millions accepted Christianity, is the correct answer.
Explanation:
Christianity came to Japan with the Portuguese and the Jesuit missionaries in 1542. They brought both the gunpowder and Christianity to Japan. The Lord of Kyushu accepted them. Theses missionaries managed to convert a large number of people and and the ruling class to Christianity in the western Japan. Due to their growing tolerance Christianity was banned by the Toyotomi HIdeyoshi and 26 christians were executed in 1597. Many more were executed after the rebellion on Shimabara Peninsula. Christianity was again banned under the rule of Tokugawa Shogunate, only few people who were known as hidden chrstians continued to practice the religion. The number of Japanese Christians started to increase after the Meiji Restoration.
By strengthening the earlier Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, the later laws further pressured citizens to take sides regarding the issue of slavery. Tensions between the North and South quickly increased, leading to the eventual secession of the South and the ensuing Civil War.
The unique New England way of life was centered on
family, town, and the church. And the corresponding changes that affected this
comfortable social order in the late seventeenth century were:
Family: did everything they could to defend marriage and
family values