The religious group was called puritan because they were supposed to be "pure." They had very strict rules about religion and did not let their people change religions. In a way, they were somewhat the exact opposite of Quakers. Puritans were sometimes flogged if they did something wrong.
Do not hold me to this, but it could spark the discussion you ask for...
I believe "Puritans" were a splinter (with the "Pilgrams") group from the mainstream Church of England. I think the Puritans sat tight in England, and what later became to be known as the "Pilgram" set settled across the channel in Flanders or somewhere similar, prior to undertaking a migration to America. (Hence, the common association of Pilgrims with the New World).
I am not sure if the Puritans and the Pilgrams wanted to expand on the Church of England philosophies or go back to an earlier time in the original Church.
"Puritans" in the context of my understanding has to do with either becoming more pure than the status quo of the mainstream Church of England or maybe wanting to return to older traditional philosophies after rejecting new or trending philosophies being initiated by the mainstream Church.
Cut me some slack if anyone knows this to be way off base. I am neither a religion or historical buff. Just recollecting.
The puritans were called puritans because of the root word "pure". They wanted to "purify" the church of England.
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Great Puritan Migration
Winthrop was a Puritan and the leadership of Massachusetts was strictly Puritan, abiding by a religious code of ethics that became law.
The colony only allowed the Puritan religion
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the answer is John winthrop.
John Winthrop led a group of Puritan colonists known as the Massachusetts Bay Company to settle in Massachusetts in 1630, seeking religious freedom from the Church of England.
A religious group can be called a sect. A religious group can also be called a congregation when all attend the same church. A religious group might have more than one sect, or group of individuals, like the Amish.
The religious group that many pilgrims belonged to were known as the Separatists, also referred to as the Pilgrims. They were dissenters from the Church of England and believed in separating from the established church to practice their own form of religious worship.
Connecticut's first church was the Congregationalists (Puritans).
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The Puritans were persecuted for religious reasons.
they had the same religious beliefs