There were a lot of religions in Colonial America. Some of the religions were Quakers‚ Catholics‚ Christians‚ Lutherans‚ Puritans‚ and Jews. Government and local towns tried to enforce strict religious observance. There were many religions so people could follow any religion they choose. The thirteen original colonies established eight churches‚ if colonies practiced a different religion than their church they were sometimes persecuted. Most colonist said that they were Christians they believed
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Antinomianism John Smith Pequot War Virginia House of Burgesses Bacon’s Rebellion John Winthrop Plymouth Plantation William Bradford Dominion of New England King Philip’s War Powhatan William Penn George & Cecilius Calvert Massachusetts Bay Company Quakers Glorious Revolution Mayflower Compact Quitrent Headright Metacomet Roger Williams Jacob Leisler Middle Ground Sir William Berkeley MATCHING A. Match each of the following people with the appropriate description: 1. _____ Captain
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the Christian Religion. He formed Calvinism. King Henry VIII formed the Protestant Church. There were a few people who wanted to see the process of taking Catholicism out of England occur more quickly. These people were called Puritans. A tiny group of Puritans‚ called Separatists‚ broke away from the Church of England. King James I had them exiled from England. The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth Separatists in Holland settled in Plymouth Bay in 1620. Pilgrim leaders drew up
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The Puritans‚ who had apparently come to America to escape ridicule and religious persecution‚ were taking up on that very idea‚ punishing all those whom did not share in their ideas. They were stiff‚ strict people and did not allow for much‚ but the main idea is that they were driven by a higher power‚ God. This made the Puritans successful Massachusetts’s colonists in that they were strong-willed and willing to make their government work. The type of government chosen by the Puritans worked
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Virginia Company of London which hoped to benefit economically from their investments. New Hampshire and New York were also founded for commercial reasons. On the other hand‚ Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony were founded by Separatists and Puritans who hoped to practice their religion freely. Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were founded for similar reasons. It was both the drive for the commercial profit and religious freedom that produced English colonies in America. The Virginia Company of
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Some sects of Christianity‚ such as the Puritans‚ were even less tolerant. The Puritans controlled many governments in Massachusetts Bay‚ Connecticut‚ and Plymouth. To vote‚ one often had to be a member of the Puritan church. In addition‚ most of the laws were based on the Old Testament. People who did not closely adhere to the strict guidelines of the Puritans were often fined‚ humiliated‚ or killed. Some were banished‚ such as in the case of the Puritan Mistress Anne Hutchinson who secretly preached
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Religion in the New World exploded into the land with the colonization of thousands of immigrants. It played an important role in the development of thought in the West. Religion was one of the first concepts to spark the desires of people from other countries to emigrate to the new lands. While many religions blossomed on the American shores of the Atlantic‚ a basic structure held for most of them‚ being predominantly derived from Puritanism. Jamestown‚ the first permanent English settlement‚ showed
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to help them grow the tobacco‚ and work as slaves in the English colonies. The Puritans were a group of people who didn’t want to pray to the church of England‚ so in 1628‚ a group of Puritans came to Massachusetts for freedom of religion. Everyone that lived in Massachusetts had to pray in Puritan churches‚ and they didn’t want their people to have freedom of religion either. Roger Williams lived with the Puritans. He told them that everyone should have the right to choose their religion‚ and then
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American colonies had conflicting outlooks on the extent of religious freedom in the new world based on the different acts of the British Empire and by the English origin of most of the settlers. New England was mostly comprised of Puritans‚ the Middle Colonies consisted of Quakers‚ and the South was more concerned about using the land to make money and didn’t emphasize on religion. The Southern Mainland colonies considered the Church of England as their dominant faith although there was some religion
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devoted to their faith (Christianity). This is where the university of Harvard originated which was originally meant to train ministers and over half of the graduating students became congressional divines. we can also depict the lives of the puritan women in New England. some historians depict the colonial period as a "golden age" for women. "Surviving letters indicate that men and women generally accommodated themselves to the gender roles
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