Compare And Contrast The Puritans And Quakers

The Quakers were first founded in the mid-1600s in England and were formerly known as The Religious Society of Friends. They were a very simple and devoted democratic group of people. When they arrived in America, they began to try to settle in Massachusetts. Massachusetts was also where the Puritan colonists had been settling and because they (the Quakers) threatened the Puritan’s beliefs in America they gave them and other opposing religions, such as the Baptists, harsh punishments for inhabiting their land which included hanging, fines, whipping, and banishing the people from Massachusetts. The Quakers later moved their efforts to the new land of Pennsylvania. They established their land on “the equality of all persons (including women, blacks, and Indians) before God.” They proved this stance of equality by being the “first group of whites to repudiate slavery” of Africans. They also purchased their found land from the Indians that owned it. These actions show that the Quakers truly lived in equality. “Religious freedom was Penn’s most fundamental principle.” The Quakers never gave an established church for Pennsylvania and allowed almost all religious freedom in its land. Although the Quakers were lenient on race, gender, and religious preference they did have a “strict code of personal morality.” They “prohibited swearing, drunkenness, and adultery” among many other activities that they thought were immoral. Many of their beliefs spread throughout America and has

The New England colonies developed rapidly, largely due to the influence of the Puritans. The Puritans came to the new world seeking religious freedom and helped found most of the colonies in the New England region. The Puritans wanted a United government that will later become the basis for the Unites States, they believed that the overall well being of the people was more important than the well being of the few, and the Puritans believed that religion, church, and community were important aspects of the people’s lives. The Puritans’ religion allowed them to prosper in the political, economical, and social development of the New England Colonies in the 1630-1660’s.

In early 1600's, Puritans followed the Pilgrims to America then they landed in Massachusetts bay. The Puritans started the colony because they wanted to escape religious persecution. The only religion was the Puritans.In the early 1600's of, Massachusetts there was only one Indian tribe,and that was the Wampanoag. Puritans tried to purify the Anglican church because they wanted to make services simpler and taking ranks of authority

During the early colonization of the East coast of North America, many groups of people of Europe came to the New World such as the Puritans and Quakers. Both the Puritans, led by John Winthrop, and the Quakers, led by William Penn, were escaping persecution from England but each they had their own views and goals in religion, politics, and ethnic relations. Being on the native land of the local Indians, both Penn and Winthrop had to face issues and negotiations with the Indians. Penn and Winthrop had their own separate approaches to politics but they both sought a more just system than the one in England. After being persecuted, both Penn and Winthrop wanted their people to be free worship, but Penn and Winthrop each had their own

In the 1630's and the 1640's, the Puritans traveled to the colonies to detach from their opinion of a convoluted Church of England. They set up towns and started new lives that were all based on their idea of a pure religion. The Puritan's definition of a pure religion did not include many of the ideas of the Church of England. They built the colonies and made a system based upon the idea that God was the most important aspect of life. Puritan ideas and values influenced the political, economic, and social development of the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660’s by spreading their beliefs into every facet of daily life. Politically their ideas regarding what was considered sinful behavior and how power was separated among the

have made gigantic advancements in technology, in medicine, and in civil rights. Humanity as a whole has progressed significantly, yet we still have many of the same issues that we did hundreds of years ago. Yes, we may not have slavery or the Jim Crow Laws, but we still have institutionalized racism that allows the shooting of unarmed black men by police officers to go virtually unpunished. Yes, women are allowed to vote, but they still get paid less than their male counterparts. America has made many advancements and one might say is doing better than it had been in the past, but doing better doesn’t mean doing good. One part of American history that we still unfortunately share many similarities with is the Puritan society of colonial America. Although America as a whole has made many advances since the 1600s, we still hold many of the same flaws that the Puritans did.

Religions in the American colonies have always occupied an important position. For example, Puritans are holding a dominant position in New England area, especially in Massachusetts Bay Colony. In addition, in the 17th century, the government controlled almost everything. According to the article, “Puritan ministers were compelled—upon pain of imprisonment—to wear the surplice and use the Book of Common Prayer, and their congregants were compelled to participate in what they regarded as rote

There were several Christian religions evolving at the time, but Puritan society in the late 17th and early 18th centuries was dominant and focused on social and economic status unlike the Quakers who believed that God lived in everyone and evoked a more positive outlook on life. These two important identifying characteristics of people went hand in hand and constituted what

The Quaker religion and Puritanism derived from the same idea in terms of wanting a “holy experiment” except Penn envisioned something different from the Puritans. For instance, according to the Quaker principles, they believed in equality to all persons such as men, women, blacks, and Indians even before God. Another principle would be their perception of liberty, they believed that liberty is a

Due to conflicting belief systems, the Quakers were seen as a threat to the Puritans because they opposed some of the Puritans greatest values. In addition to challenging traditional beliefs, they also challenged authority and posed a threat to, “religion, the family, the social hierarchy-that the Puritans believed the Quakers wanted to destroy” (Pestana, 329). As a result of their conflicting views, they were subjected to mistreatment. In order to support her assertion, the author presents several different points that explain the origins of the conflict, and she supports the points with evidence from a variety of sources that she embedded into her work. She uses both primary and secondary sources to offer more valuable insight from the perspective of people who were present at the time of the conflict. To reach her conclusions, Pestana starts with explaining where both groups came from and the conflict’s origin. This is useful for when she dives deeper into their opposing views because, “in order to understand the initial confrontation between English Quakerism and New England Puritanism, these fears

The 16th century began with the migration of the Puritans to New England and the Catholics to the Spanish Southwest. Both of these religions influenced the development of their colonial societies differently. The religions influenced their societies differently because the Puritans from New England were stricter, favored independence, and did not believe in a hierarchy unlike the Catholics from the Spanish Southwest.

A plan for some of the colonists moving to the New World was freedom of religion, such as the quakers (located in Pennsylvania) and pilgrims believed in the freedom of living off of your own specific religion. The puritans on the other hand, settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 , identified themselves as God’s chosen pure angels because of their belief that they were born saved into the world. They would also turn a blind eye to other denominations and focused on their church to be an Angelic Catholic Church specifically. Which of course if you know anything about their “home” back in Europe. That is their “main” denomination over in Britain and they do required everyone to believe in. The puritans brought over their beliefs from England not trying to make it into their own. For example in England they created various religious laws, that were put into place over from England but now the laws transferred into

I believe that both religion and economics were of great appeal to migrants. I wouldn't want to assume that one was a greater reason than the other. In reality neither was what was actually happening. The majority of migrants couldn't afford the trip over so they were signed into contract from companies like The Virginia Company of London where they were to be indentured servants for 7 years to pay off their debt and to receive a piece of land. Depending on where the migrant settled depended on whether he or she had religious freedom or not. Puritans, Catholics, and Quakers treated all non believers of their specific religion with no mercy and would not tolerate differing views.

Up until the tine of the reformation by Martin Luther, there was some church that did not embrace the Roman Catholic Church. Some of them had their split early in the formation of the Catholic Church, some came along as the believer moved away from the catholic because of the doctoral changes in the church.

As most know, the Anglican Church was started as a direct result of the Pope’s refusal to grant an annulment to Henry VIII, causing Henry to split from the Roman Catholic Church. In 1534, Henry VIII signed the Act of Succession and the Act of Supremacy, thus creating the Church of England (BBC, 2011). This happened in tandem with the Reformation, which was sweeping throughout Europe. However, because of the political nature, rather than theological nature, of this transition, the core beliefs of the Church of England are not too far removed from those of the Roman Catholic Church.