Why Did Puritans Come To The New World For Religious Freedom?

It is no secret that almost all Puritans came to the New World for religious freedom. That all they wanted to do is purify the Church of England from catholic practices that still intertwined within the church. So they sailed to the New World and tried to show the rest of England of what a good and pure religion looked like without catholic influence.Their morals and religion heavily influence the economy, they would have, how they would govern and how they were to live.
The Puritan economy was one of the lesser factors they could have cared less about. But, to say they had no type of business enterprise would be inconceivable and unrealistic at a time like the 1600’s in the New World. Trade was part of any European colony, especially the
Moreover a Puritan man could vote on issues was a representative of his household, that made it seem that everyone of age voted on the manner at hand the same way, but really the head, the father, voted for everyone. Another aspect of the Puritan government as to their judicial system, they did not object from punishing children, especially when they misbehaved or acted up toward their parents. For example, if a boy was “... a stubborn or rebellious son of sufficient years…” the parents of the child would send him to court and the decided punishment of a misbehaved child would be death. Such a reason was because the child Puritans were to respect their parents and do what they wanted; they also were taught if they disrespected their parents they would go to
Most of the reason why Puritans worked so much and had a good work ethic, was to get closer to God. That caused them to work as hard as they could. In his last will and testament, Robert Keayne makes the comment of “... I have not lived an idle, lazie or dronish life nor spent my time wantonly, fruitlessly…” which would lead to the notion that Puritans hated laziness and sin filled life, only cause them to stray from God’s light in their minds. Despite Puritan hard work to set them apart from most colonies at this time, they were a traditional patriarchal society. The men in the colony ran everything in the colony and the women and children submitted to the Puritan man as taught to for generations before them. In every household the man was the head and final judge in all decisions in the home or in community. Since patriarchal societies are common at this time, it does not come shocking to know that the men also ran the churches. Granted some men became pastors for their churches and most deliberations of society or the church were held by church officials, all male, women did not do these tasks as they were thought to be just mans work. It is when Anne Hutchinson started secretly preaching to women of scandalous ideas, for that time anyway that is. Becoming a religious leader in private, her small gatherings would listen to what she had to say and go back to their husbands and repeat the same