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The Puritan community of the Massachusetts Bay colony was primarily focused around church and faith. In 1630, a mass exodus of Puritans moved from England to the colonies in an attempt to isolate themselves and focus on their own religion. Puritans believed that they had a covenant with God, meaning they were predestined for heaven.

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

With religious reforms causing controversy in England came the Puritans, known for their simplicity in their way of life. They wore basic clothing and were against consumption of alcohol and sex (unless married). With the disagreements of the religious conflicts happening in England, the puritans “wanted to purify the Church of England from within.” The sole reason the idea sparked to settle a colony in America was in search of a Puritan lifestyle and the freedom to do so. On March 4, 1629 King Charles gave the Massachusetts Bay Company a charter while not knowing the true nature of what this colony was to become and for the reasons behind it. Still, the Puritans left for America in March 1630. In contrast to the type of people who immigrated to Virginia, the Massachusetts population was mostly nuclear families, meaning husband, wife, and kids. Also differing from the colonists in Virginia, the settlers in Massachusetts Bay worked together for the common good of the colony. Along with their lives and beliefs, their government and politics were religiously based as well and soon they decided upon a Congregationalism form of church government. Their churches were a matter of choice but in order to become a member they had a strict regulation “In order to join one (a church) a man or woman had to provide testimony–a confession of faith–before neighbors who already had been admitted as full members.” Because religion was the bases behind Massachusetts being colonization crimes and religious disagreements called for serious

The Puritans encountered many hardships during the 17th century. These included traveling to the New World, fighting in King Phillip’s War, and questioning their belief in God at times. The Puritans were one of the religious groups who believed The Church of England needed to be purified. The other group representing this notion called themselves Pilgrims. The Pilgrims differentiated themselves from the Puritans because the Pilgrims believed The Church of England was corrupted to deeply, and could not be purified from within. The Pilgrims wished to separate themselves from The Church of England, causing the Pilgrims to also be called separatists. The Puritans, however, wanted to purify The Church of England from within. For this reason, the

Connecticut, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and New Haven all made up the region that was New England. It laid just north of the colony of Chesapeake. The New Englanders wanted and longed for religious freedom. They were known as Puritan Separatists, they wanted complete separation from the Church of England. Protestantism was an evolution that thrived in England once the Church separated from Catholicism. These people wanted to turn toward Calvinism, because of this they began to be called “Separatists”. They were not alone in this, joined with them where

The settlers who established on the northern east coast were strictly searching for a land with religious freedom. The Puritans, followers of John Calvin, settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In England, they wished to purify the Anglican Church but were persecuted by King James I. The Puritans believed in well-ordered communities and families. They stressed education and the specific roles for males and females. The Pilgrims, or Separatists, founded Plymouth Colony and wrote the Mayflower Compact as a self government document by taking advantage of a loophole in their charter. This was the first self government treaty in North America. They believed that the English church was so corrupt that they had to establish their own independent congregations. As time passed, the New England settlements grew in population and diversity and split into different colonies such as Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and

It was an attempt to start a new life and to practice their religion without any worries. One of the religious group that came over to the Americas and would help establish the foundations for the United States in the future was the Puritans. They were a religious group that believed in strictness, hard work, diligence, discipline, and humility. There disagreement with how the Church of England operated created tensions and prosecutions. As a result, the area where the Puritans settled known as New England would be completely different from the middle and south colonies. One of the reasons there was decline in deference towards religion in New England was the strict rules to obtain membership. Only a minority of the population in New England had full memberships. Taylor stated that the “declining proportion of full members threatened to restrict baptism to a minority of the infants, because churches customarily limited that sacraments to offspring of full members.” As a result, people became less involved in church which created problems for the Puritans. Puritans believed that their religious practice was the only way and to become a minority would create problems. A decline of Puritans may lead to the total dissolution of the group and also the colonist decline in deference toward the practices of Puritans. The Puritan

Before coming to the new world, these people were in the vast empire of the time, known as New England. New England, at the time, was ruled by Charles I who created The Church of England. This church’s mission was to break away from the Catholic churches and create its own improved protestant religion. Many people agreed with this new change, however a special group thought that the new church still held to much alikeness to the Catholic church. This special group of people became known as the Puritans.

Within the colony of Massachusetts, religion played an important role in shaping the community’s people and interests. The reason for the Puritans move to North America was to escape the convictions the Christians of England were placing on them (Divine, 89). Winthrop and his followers believed that in this new land they must create a place where they could come together as a people and build the perfect religious society (Divine, 90). In a speech about his vision for the land, John Winthrop said, “We must delight in each

Every colonist had their respective reasons to emigrate to the new American colonies across the Atlantic. The Puritan demographic of colonists left England in order to pursue their own moral and religious goals in the Massachusetts Bay colony as seen in the first document. These colonists were not here in the Americas to escape religious persecution, they came to America for the purpose of being able to become a grand shining “city upon a hill” to show the world how righteous their church really was. Both these Puritans as well as the Puritan separatists saw God and religion as paramount to everyday life and maintained radically extreme rules and regulations to uphold the colony's sanctity. The Puritans saw themselves as zealots of Christianity

The Puritans came to the America’s, in 1630 from England, didn’t come to spread their religious interest, but to escape from the England law, which prevented the Puritans from pursuing their faiths. Once the Puritans settled, in Massachusetts, they were to believe that God had given them another chance. John Winthrop, Massachusetts governor, and other Puritans believed that they were unworthy of God, where as other felt that God had blessed them. There were multiple discussions over religious views, which lead “ to a willingness to accept difference.” (paragraph 3). Roger Williams, just like the other Puritans, stayed for a bit at Boston before moving to plymouth Colony, with his fellow Pilgrims. Elder William Brewster and Governor William Bradford were disappointed William’s choice in his beliefs, which lead to Roger Williams leaving Plymouth and heading

Puritanism could be defined by many as a huge turning point of the history of our culture. When we hear the word, “Puritan” it invokes a sense of religion, of strict values and correctness that laid the raw foundation for the different branches of churches today. Not only did they play a monumental part in the growth of Calvinism, but of early colonial government and the movement and spread of people across North America. Although their values and ideals are radical in terms of modern beliefs, our culture would not have formed the way it did without the early influence of Puritans. Most confuse the group of Puritans that escaped England with the Mayflower separatists, but that is not the case. Their cause was not to destroy the Church of England or forsake it, nor its reformed beliefs that they were unhappy with, it was to sculpt and whittle their own place of worship in an area where they could no longer be punished for it, while still clinging tightly to the essentials of Calvinism. This is where their journey starts, with the group of 900 that docked in the New World on June 12, 1630. Due to the group of Puritans lead by John Winthrop, we would eventually come to have an early American culture lead by strong austerity and obedience, and in time those that resulted from the downfall of this harsh society. In the absence of these strict settlers, we would not have such a strong sense of congregationalism and

One root characteristic of the American cultural identity is the pursuit of freedom, especially in times of suppression. This pursuit of freedom was first planted by the English colonists in Jamestown, Virginia on April 26, 1607 (Taylor,130). Englishmen sought freedom from many social injustices like poverty, vagrancy, and crime in London (Taylor, 120). Although these colonists suffered from the physical demands of beginning a new life in a strange area, they were able to make a statement of freedom from Europe. North from the Chesapeake Colonies, settlement began in New England by a certain religious group, the Puritans. The Puritans were a group of religious reformers that left England to be free of the Anglican church. Puritans sought to recover the original and pure church of Christ by rejecting the involvement of ceremonial sacraments in the church and by urging Church goers to read their Bible. The Puritans sought the new lands to be free of a sinful England and its social and economic problems (History.com Staff).

Puritans were English Protestant reformers who aimed to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creed. Many of them believed only “visible saints” were welcome in the church. The Separatists were a group of Puritans who, rather than purify the Church of England, chose to break away from it all together. These Separatists settled in Holland, where from there, many sailed to the New World on the Mayflower. They eventually landed in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts, where many Puritans soon followed.

“The roots of Puritanism are… found in the beginnings of the English Reformation. The name “Puritans” (they… sometimes called “precisionists”) was a term of contempt assigned to the movement by its enemies (History.com Staff).” The Puritans fled England and the Roman Catholic church; they believed the church needed purification. “One such faction was a group of separatist believers in the Yorkshire village of Scrooby, who, fearing for their safety, moved to Holland in 1608 and thence, in 1620, to the place they called Plymouth in New England. A decade later, a larger, better-financed group, mostly from East Anglia, migrated to Massachusetts Bay (History.com Staff). The Puritan way of life was quite strict and demanded complete