The Rise Of Puritan Beliefs

The Salem Witch Trials brought havoc among the citizens of Salem, Massachusetts starting in 1692. Many of the people within the town continued to have strong loyalties to their new Puritan religion and their old king back home. The church of England had moved away from the Catholic religion with the help of King Henry VIII and the Puritans were a new group of people who accepted the split from Catholicism but still believed that the church of England had a lot of aspects that remained with the Catholic religion. Despite this, loyalty to the king remained strong because the Puritans were not looking to break off from the Church of England instead they wanted to reform the religion and make it their own. These loyalties stretched to such an extent that any sin committed was also considered an act of treason and thus punished. The Salem community was constantly searching for evil within their town to prove their righteousness to God which lead to high rates of fear and paranoia in their daily lives. The strict Puritan religion soon became the root cause of the monstrous imagination that started to form within the community of Salem. Many people still feared the presence of Catholic ideas within their communities and in response were willing to go to any extent to irradiate these views. Some historians also account the beginning of the trials to divisions within the two towns of Salem that lead to tensions and turmoil between the townsmen. But without the increased belief in their new religion, women around town wouldn’t have been persecuted. The strict belief in the Puritan religion and culture was the root cause of fear and paranoia that led to the mass execution of many women and townspeople during the Salem Witch Trials.

The Puritans’ very conservative view on religion and the idea of purifying the Church of England led them to live and worship as God would like them to. Because of their view on religion, any acts/behaviors that seemed unusual or abnormal was thought to be the work of the devil. This lead to a series of court cases involving the accusations of persons doing witchcraft/interacting with the devil, also known as the Salem witch trials.

Puritans were extremely religious and sought to restore Christianity (Henrietta, James 83). The act of committing any sin including summoning the devil was frowned upon because it was seen as an act of turning away from God. The persecution of witches was viewed as a purge of sin for some. Witchcraft was a serious offense because it was believed that witches made pacts with the devil to charm or kill another. “…power of darkness …murdering witch.”

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

Puritans had many beliefs that affected the Salem Witch Trials, these were based on how the attendance or lack of attendance of the church, how people should behave, social class, and the way the government should be handled. Puritans were English Protestants that came to America in 1630. They sought to reform the Church of England. When they first came to America they settled at Salem, Massachusetts. The main reason the Puritan’s came to Salem was for freedom of religion which they did not have in England. The Puritans also came because they believed that the Church of England was not religious or enforcing religion enough. Puritans were just like the Pilgrims. Years later the Salem Witch Trials started in 1692 and ended

The Puritans were a group of fundamentalist people. This meant that they led a life that was to be followed as God put in the bible..For instance, in Exodus 22:18 (Doc A.) it is stated, “‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live’”,in the eyes of the Puritans this simple phrase translates into this idea that witches exist and that they must then be eliminated because they caused the Puritan life to be stained and impure.. Although, the Bible does not state how to identify a witch, in the eye of the fundamentalist Puritan anyone could be a witch. This caused the Salem Witch

Dissent always existed in the New England Colonies; the Puritans rarely all agreed on one point. Differing theological opinions forged a schism between groups and lead to the creation of colonies such as Rhode Island. As they stressed literacy, individuals formed their own impressions of the gospel. Minister Roger Williams, for example, disagreed with the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s Indian relations and lack of religious freedoms. Roger Williams wrote this on the matter, “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced; which enforced uniformity sooner or later is the greatest occasion of civil war.”

In the 1600s there were a certain group of people that took up a vast majority of the population this group was called the Puritans. The Puritans were a strictly religious group of people who had a very strict interpretation of bible and they believed anything as long as they believed it was God's’ will to be done, they only did what the bible could tell them to do, or if they preformed anything different than what was lead to be by the bible they were punished. They had so many restrictions on the littlest of things just like dancing, no fancy clothing and no smoking. But they did have restrictions on pretty big things as well like you can’t miss church no matter what even if someone were to be sick, people had to pay to celebrate christmas.

The Puritans followed the Bible as closely as possible. The magistrates referred to one scripture in the Bible time and time again as to see how to deal with the accused witches, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18). Since the Puritans followed

Once the Puritans arrived in America, they found that the Native Americans believed in polytheistic religions mostly centered around nature. Even though the Puritans believed in theology and in how God watches over everyone and is smiteful of sinners, the Puritans found since the Native Americans were mostly savages and heathens, it was okay to find them inferior and in some cases it was okay to kill the “savages”. The Puritans established two important and prominent colonies being the Boston colony and the Salem colony. The Boston colony was the more successful colony of the two. Although the Puritans did not fully agree with the Church of England in some instances they still were allies as well as allies with England.

Puritanism and the Salem Witch Trials started in 1692. Many people wonder what the Puritanism and Salem Witch Trials are. Puritanism is the act of colonists who had left England seeking religious tolerance. Puritanism and the Salem Witch Trials were a very important movemnt in history. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The Salem Witch Trials started due to a group of young girls from Salem Village, Massachusetts.

The Puritanism passage in the textbook has two key themes laced throughout its paragraphs and those are the influence that the Puritans had on America, and that the Puritans are misunderstood and remembered for all the wrong reasons. When the Puritans came over to America they brought with them so much more than the supplies to last. The Puritans brought their new ideas and their desire to achieve success. The Puritans, thanks to their successful mindset, allowed for their influence to reach far beyond what they would have imagined. The Puritans are the ancestors of over 8 million Americans today ("Puritans"), and their established cities are still some of the oldest most successful cities in America ("Puritans"). Not only have the Puritans been a part of our gene pool for

Puritanism is the belief in the reformation of the Church of England, they sought to live holy and simplify worship. Within Puritanism you are expected to live your life as an example and abide by the word of God. The strict lifestyle of Puritans led to the accusations of people who did not abide by the same laws or rules. Often times, people of other religions were thought to be evil or witches just by the religion they chose. This led to pitting religions against each other, which seems to be the opposite of what the goal should be. Within this portion of history, the Salem Witch Trials took place. The Salem Witch Trials was a series of hangings and prosecutions of alleged witches. A group of young girls accused a multitude of people of being witches or being companioned with the devil: more than 200 people were

Puritanism first started with a movement in Protestantism in England and later colonial America. It was during the reign of Elizabeth when many Protestants returned after leaving England during the time of Bloody Mary who had been killing many Protestants. The movement drew support from people of all walks of life. Towards the end of Elizabeth’s Reign and throughout James I’s reign a new generation of religious thinkers began to articulate their theologies. John Preston, William Perkins, and William Ames came up with the different beliefs of Puritanism that would characterize the seventeenth-century history of the movement in England and in the New England in America. They drew heavily from the Old Testament, and they believed that human beings were born sinners incapable of earning merit in the eyes of God, also known as predestination. This belief was used not only in Puritanism but also many other denominations of Christianity.

The religious changes that occurred in England during the early 1500s were less concerned with doctrinal matters. King Henry VIII, initially a Roman Catholic, left the church over dynastic concerns: He wanted to perpetuate the line of Tudor monarchs. Despite the emergence of an independent English church, religious loyalties remained deeply divided for decades. Actually, the English church differed a little from the Catholic Church, except for the central issue of allegiance to the pope. The remaining similarity was a matter of deep concern to many who felt that the English Reformation had not gone far enough. The name “Puritan” came to be used to describe members of the English Church who wished to purify it of all its pretenses to the Roman