united and independent society. The Puritans referred to motley "group of religious reformers who emerged within the Church of England" and "shared a common Calvinist theology" (Heyrman‚ 2002). Their opposition to the Anglican Church and its impurities‚ eventually led to their dispersal into the American colonies‚ where they established their own sense of "genuine self-government" (Bailey and Kennedy‚ 43). After some initial "surveys" of land‚ the Puritan Pilgrims settled in Plymouth Rock‚ where they
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English were mostly Puritans and pilgrims. The middle colonists were a mixture of religions‚ including Quakers (led by William Penn)‚ Catholics‚ Lutherans‚ Jews‚ and others. The southern colonists had a mixture of religions as well‚ including Baptists and Anglicans. The pilgrims wanted to separate from Protestantism‚ so they came over to the New World. The puritans wanted to change ideas within the Anglican Church because they felt it was too similar to Catholicism. The puritans came to the New World
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fail to realize is that the Puritan belief of Divine Providence consumed every single aspect of the Puritan lifestyle. From the moment they woke up‚ until the moment they crawled back into bed‚ the inhabitants of the first settlements of New England believed that the cause of every occurrence was the Christian God. Every action‚ and it’s according reaction‚ was directly designed and destined to happen because God chose it to be so. William Bradford‚ one of these Puritans‚ was not only the first governor
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result of the Age of Exploration in addition‚ the freedom from religious oppression. For the Separatists later known as the Pilgrims‚ America was a place for dreams and new beginnings given that they were persecuted for their religious beliefs in England. Some fled to the Netherlands finding religious freedom and no work. The Pilgrims however‚ settled in America. Moreover‚ the Puritans came to America to practice their religion freely. They strictly enforced their religious regulations in result of the
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Similar to the missionary system‚ Spaniards created the encomienda system. This system allowed for Spanish royalty to rent plots of land and the people of the land to the Spaniards. The Spaniards would then convert these people to Christianity. The Puritans of the New England colony set up Praying Towns that forced the natives of the region to Christianity. This greatly upset the Wampanoag people and lead to the start of King Phillip’s War. As well as the forced conversions‚ the natives of the Americas
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adversitie…’” --William Bradford‚ Of Plymouth Plantation Who were the Puritans? Heavily influenced by John Calvin and believed in predestination: God had already decided who would be saved. Each believer had no way of knowing which group they were in. Felt that the Church of England had become a product of political struggles and man-made doctrines. Unlike the Pilgrims‚ who wanted to separate from the Anglican church‚ most Puritans did not want a complete break. They wanted to reform it from within
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First‚ the Separatists of England that were living in Holland to avoid royal English rule‚ departed to America. The Separatists‚ later known as Pilgrims‚ set off on the Mayflower. The original plan was to land off of the coast of Virginia. However‚ the Mayflower eventually made land fall in the New England region. Living off the land and poor‚ the Pilgrims became friends with local Native Americans and later‚ made their own government and set the foundation for the New England colony. After the Massachusetts
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market for English manufactured goods. They naturally hoped for financial profit from their investment in shares of company stock. Freedom from religious persecution motivated the Pilgrims to leave England and settle in Holland‚ where there was more religious freedom. However‚ after a number of years the Pilgrims felt that their children were being corrupted by the liberal Dutch lifestyle and were losing their English heritage. News of the English Colony in Virginia motivated them to leave Holland
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1608‚ Puritan Separatists who wished to leave England could not legally do so. 9. In 1620‚ the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America were Christian missionaries. 10. Compared to King James I‚ King Charles I’s treatment of Puritans was more hostile. 11. The Puritan merchants who founded the Massachusetts Bay Company carried out the largest single migration in the seventeenth century. 12. The Massachusetts Bay Puritans created a colonial "theocracy". 13. The Puritan founders
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early American literature. The strong belief in religion‚ freedom‚ and a strong will for a better life. Each piece had one or more of these themes within them. A strong value within almost all the writing was religion‚ both Native American and Puritan. Most Native American tales are based around a god or a moral expressed by a god. In "Coyote Finishes His Work" Coyote does all his work because
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