Reformation‚ a few religious groups from England fled to the New World in search of religious freedom. The separating Puritans‚ also known as Pilgrims‚ were the first to come for purely religious reasons. Fed up with the Catholicized ways of the Church of England‚ they settled in Plymouth hoping to start their own‚ separate‚ purified church. Later‚ a group of non-separatist Puritans followed suit and came to the New World also because of religion. Founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ they hoped to
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path to salvation‚ although they were involved in sinful acts. While Calvinists‚ also known as Puritans‚ solely believed in God’s grace. They believed that certain people‚ also known as the elect‚ had been chosen to enter Heaven‚ since before birth. Although some Calvinists did accept the Church of England‚ they still wanted to purify it from its corruption‚ these Calvinists were known a Puritans. The Puritans also denied the right of the Supreme Head of Church to be the King‚ they expected it to be
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Name ____________________ APUSH (Unit 1‚ #4) Date _____________ Pd ____ 17th Century English Colonies: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society I. Colonial Society in the 17th Century A. New England 1. NE was more stable than other colonies due to families‚ access to marriage‚ longer life expectancy 2. Education was valued in NE: led to high literacy rate & Harvard (1638) 3. “Golden Age” for NE women? Important contributions but
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founded byt the Separatist Puritans who wanted to begin their own Church without the interference of the British government. They believed in predestination‚ in which a soul is born destined for hell or heaven. Once a person shows signs of conversion‚ in which the person is shown that he/she will go to heaven‚ they are "visible saints". Puritans agree that only visible saints should have Church membership but in England everyone could have Church membership so the Puritans came to the Americas to set
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Chapter 3 Review Sheet Pilgrims- is a traveler who is on a journey to a holy place. Separatists- is the advocacy of a state of cultural‚ ethnic‚ tribal‚ religious‚ racial‚ governmental or gender separation from the larger group. Puritans- were a community of English Protestants active during the 16th and 17th centuries. Mayflower Compact- was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Squanto- was a Patuxet. He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first
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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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appearance in the New England Magazine for April 1835 and was collected in Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846. The story is set in the Puritan New England‚ a common setting for Hawthorne’s works‚ and like most of the stories in Mosses‚ “Young Goodman Brown” examines Hawthorne’s favorite themes: the loss of religious faith‚ presence of temptation‚ and social ills of Puritan communities. These themes‚ along with the story’s dark‚ surreal ending‚ make “Young Goodman Brown” one of the Hawthorne’s most popular
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Penn and other Quakers believed that everyone had to seek God in his or her own way. At the age of 22 William Penn joined the religious society of friends or Quakers. The Quakers believed that their “inner light” came directly from God‚ they refused to bow or take off their hats to any man‚ even refused to take up arms. Penn and George Fox were close friends; George fox was a founders of the Quakers these were times of turmoil. Their principles differed from the state imposed religion. “if thou
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colonial life; many people came to America in search of religious freedom. The New England colonies were predominantly Puritan‚ and the Puritans wanted everyone to worship as they did. In order to ensure the Puritan way of worship was practiced‚ punishments were given to those who did not oblige. There was greater religious diversity in the Mid Atlantic region‚ including Quakers‚ Catholics‚ and Protestants. The Mid Atlantic colonies were the most diverse in America‚ and such an assortment made the
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Hampshire‚ Connecticut‚ and Rhode Island. The Southern region consists of Virginia‚ North and South Carolina‚ Georgia‚ and Maryland. The Middle colonies consist of New York‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsyvlania‚ and Delaware. In the New England Family‚ the Puritans came in large family units‚ about 8-20 in each family. They had a long life span‚ the women aged up to 68 years and the men 70 years. They were helpful. In the Southern family‚ there was a gender imbalance‚ men were 6 to 1 woman‚ that is including
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