Source:

Joseph Dulles, The Union Primeror First Book for Children, Compiled for the American Sunday School Union and Fitted for the Use of Schools in the United States (Philadelphia: The American Sunday School Union, Revised by the Committee of Publications, 1826).

Denominational Colleges.

Spurred by the revivals of the Second Great Awakening, Protestant denominations competed to establish colleges in the West, determined to spread their doctrines among Western settlers and to train ministers. Much of this impulse arose in Eastern colleges, such as Congregationalist Yale and Presbyterian Princeton, where revivals stimulated young missionaries to win the West from religious infidelity and Spanish Catholicism. Interest in the formation of denominational institutions also was encouraged by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth case in 1819, which decided that privately organized colleges would be free from state intervention. Congregationalists and Presbyterians, who had joined forces in the...