It is true that Puritans believed their salvation depended on God's covenant of grace. The Puritans were highly religious, God fearing people.
I think you guys mean "Puritan" and they believed that God had already had certain people chosen to go to heaven. So if you weren't one of those people, no matter how many good deeds you can do will ever get you to Heaven.
his or her own efforts
Emotional release through personal testimony of salvation.
Both depended on what each person believed
the convent of life being equally preached to all and among those to whom it is preached not always finding the same reception. Put in another way - predestination meant that those chosen to the saved were chosen by God from the beginning of time, and that their selection did not depend on anything that they did in their lives but upon God's will alone. (Note that this strongly implies that some are not chosen for salvation). To Calvin, it was a doctrine of assurance in that if your salvation was contingent upon what you did or believed, then it was possible to "lose" your salvation but if your election depended on God's grace alone, then it was absolutely unchangeable.
The clergy could administer the sacraments, so everyone who hoped to gain salvation depended on clergy to help them.
AnswerJohn T. Wightman
It depended in which colony, but if you are talking about the new England colonies, the answer is yes, puritans encourage the education and the found Harvard university
Jefferson believed that a strong democracy depended on well educated students
Because it all depended on what they believed in. If you believed in slavery you mostly fought for the south. If you thought that slavery was wrong you fought for the north.
from textbook: Confucius and his followers believed that a good government depended on having wise leaders who ruled to benefit the people.
They depended on goods from Europe.