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They were arrested and treated harshly because they didn't belong to the Church of England.
After the English Restoration, where the Puritans were eventually hated by the citizens, the Puritans went to the Massachusetts, one of the 13 colonies. The Puritans went there because they wanted to escape a religious persecution in Europe. Also, Massachusetts was a free land that the Puritans weren't going to be judged or have a religious persecution.
They were trying to find a safe place to practice their form of religion. The English government was not kind to religions that were not the Church of England. The Quakers and Purtians both were arrested and discriminated against in England.
The colonists transplanted English ideas of government to America by, they stood with a strong sense of English Political traditions. By doing that, they established a government.
Made laws.
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They were arrested and treated harshly because they didn't belong to the Church of England.
James II appointed Catholics to high government positions
F. E. Hutchinson has written: 'Cranmer and the English Reformation' 'Milton and the English mind'
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the puritans where peolpe who helped the english to trade maybe
the puritans where peolpe who helped the english to trade maybe
Puritans and Pilgrims.New England was settled by English Puritans. Hence the name New England.
They were English and spoke English.
Oliver Cromwell overthrew the English government and King Charles I. He established the Commonwealth of England and ruled as Lord Protector until his death in 1658.
The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, including, but not limited to, English Calvinists
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913) was an English physician, surgeon, and medical scientist.