Why was it Easy to Join a Church in Joseph Smith’s Day? #589

By 1820, religious freedom had been spreading and developing in America for nearly two hundred years. These centuries worth of developments increasingly allowed people to follow their own religious conscience. These legally granted religious freedoms made the Restoration possible. https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/why-was-it-easy-to-join-a-church-in-joseph-smiths-day