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Puritans
This category is for questions about the group of people who strove to reform the Church of England in the 16th and 17th century. Lead by John Winthrop, they were one of the first English groups to settle North America and modern day New England.
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Why did the puritans establish a government?
1620 in Mass when they landed they wrote the Mayflower Compact and this was their government.
Who was a puritan minister who disagreed with the way the leaders of massechusetts ruled?
Roger Williams.. For Sure.
What effect do you think the witch trail had on Puritan communities?
The witch trials only happened in Salem.
Why did the Puritans decide to settle in America?
"http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_Puritans_decide_to_settle_in_America"
What was the Puritan program to reform England?
They weren't out to reform England. All they wanted to do was pray and have their own religion.
What is an effect of persecution of Puritans in England?
Some puritans felt they should remain in the Church of England. Other did not think that was possible, so they formed independent congregations with their own ministers. Some of them even left England and came to America.
Purtans believed that a person's salvation depended on what?
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.
What were the Puritans values?
Puritans looked to the Bible primarily as their source of morality. There are traditionally 5 Puritan "tenets" or values.
1. Original Sin - as consequence of Original Sin, the Sin of Adam and Eve in eating the Apple of Knowledge of Good and Evil, all mankind is vile, unredeemed.
2. Grace - Sine the Puritan thought of God as the universal cause of good in the world, human success was a result of God's love; failure was the result of a lack of it.
3. Predestination - If God loved some and didn't love others (since God was all-knowing) he must have known from all eternity whom he would love and whom not.
4. The Elect - if you were a Puritan you were the saving remnant, chosen by God from all the world of sinners.
5. Good Works - Doing good, succoring the poor, needy, and weak, was a possible sign of election, but could not be a cause of it.
The puritans would read books, go to church, and fish.
What are puritans view on authority?
they viewed authority something akin to shooting birds in the dark when their very few birds so in other words auhtority was not thire thing
What were the puritans tradition of child rearing?
Persistant starvation and beatings. Puritans tried to 'beat' the devil (ie the child's spirit and happiness) out of their children.
What is a Puritan way of life?
Puritan's live in villages that consisted pf four city block's . their family was made up of children a husband and a wife.
Why did Puritans begin to settle in New England in the early 1600s?
Pruitans began to settle in New England because they wanted to practice their own religion without persecution.
How did the puritans food and eating habits support their religious views?
What is the history of Puritan Food styles?
Well, Puritans barely survived during this time. They had to learn how to fish or find any food source they could according to their surroundings
Because they think killing/sacrificing lambs is funny.
