In my dissertation I study the religious values of evangelicals in Virginia and North Carolina from 1740 to 1830. I focus on the religiosity of the participants in Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist churches in order to understand evangelicals’ impact in American culture. Historians have focused on the social dimensions of evangelicalism, especially in its relationship to slavery, reform, and the rise of Victorian culture. When historians do explore the religious aspects of evangelicalism, they stereotype evangelicals as camp-meeting revivalists. In my dissertation, I study evangelicals’ statements of faith, conversion accounts, and descriptions of church meetings and rituals in order to portray evangelical piety more accurately. I conclude from my research that evangelical values corresponded with denominational affiliation, so that Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists offered members unique sets of values and religious identities. Each denomination offered distinct attitudes toward the relationships of emotion and reason, authority and democracy, and the role of the believer in the world. In addition, the ideals of each group changed as evangelicals celebrated their pasts in biographies and histories and confronted new challenges. Evangelical piety was dynamic and had broad influence in American culture because of the range of values if represented.