Puritans

The Puritans believed that the church and government should work together to promote holiness and help people to succeed both materially and spiritually. A government official had to be apart of the church.

The Puritans maintained a Society Government in America. They placed emphasis on education of children and strong household leadership in families.

The Puritans who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1600s did not believe in "complete freedom of religion" where such freedom involves the individual's right to form his or her own views. By contrast, they believed in the freedom to practice their Christian faith as it ought to be practiced, namely, as they practiced it. Adherence to the Puritan understanding and outlook was thus strictly enforced throughout the New World settlement.

The puritans faced many challanges such as having diseases and starvation they survived because they worked togather to plant their crops and build their houses and their population grew.

a greater number of complete family units than most groups of immigrants in American history.

sunday was a very holy day for puritans as with many christians, the puritans however would throw out religion in gods name on sundays, holding massive orgies eating human flesh smoking cannabis and torturing the indians for their land

In "Young Goodman Brown," characters such as Goodman Brown, his wife Faith, and the other townspeople demonstrate behaviors that go against Puritan ideals. Goodman Brown's decision to participate in the witch meeting in the forest and his loss of faith in humanity contradict Puritan values of piety and community. Similarly, Faith's willingness to attend the meeting highlights a lack of steadfast religious conviction, while the townspeople's involvement in the dark rituals reflects moral corruption and hypocrisy in the Puritan community.

Puritans came to America simply to make the church of England more "pure", hence their name.

a puritan women who had discussions about the sermons and got kicked out of the puritan settlement

The Puritans were extremists and thought the theatre was depraved (they thought any fun was depraved).

They opposed the idea of people being on stage and pretending to be someone else, they have compared it to lying. Theatres were also a place where "orange girls", would congregate looking for business and the Puritans wanted to stop them. ( I think these people are desperate for something)

Theatres were also blamed for spreading the plague, they were never opened in summer just in case. But that was thought before the Puritans had put a ban on the fun the people were having.

Somebody else would have. And we wouldn't have Thanksgiving.

to escape religious persecution

Religious freedom

With some disgust. They were protestants who sought to bring in to the Church all kinds of new beliefs and to do away with the ancient liturgies and beliefs. The church wanted to purify the dirty dirty jews.

The Pilgrims wanted to separate from the church in England, which is why they left for America. The Puritans wanted to purify or improve the practices of the church which is why they came to America. The similarities were that they wanted to leave to escape discrimination by the king for their religious practices which did not follow the rules of the English church.

Quakers and Puritans had very little in common in their beliefs. True both left England for religious freedoms. But aside from this, Quakers and Puritans had little in common. Puritans condemned Quakers in fact, persecuting them just as much as one of their "witches." Even though both are Protestant groups, one could say that the Puritans had more in common with radical Catholics than with other Protestants. Below is link to a chart of the two groups and the beliefs back to back. Hope it helps.

because he did not think government should require certain religious beliefs.

The main goal of Puritans was to "purify", or simplify, the the Church of England. The Church of England, though Protestant, had kept the Catholic traditions of heavily decorated churches and general extravagance. The Puritans believed that in order to keep a more Christian life and live according to the way Jesus Christ had wanted, they should keep both their church and themselves as humble as possible. They believed that all people were basically sinners, and that frivolities were giving in to temptation. Thus, they banned dancing, singing, sports on Sundays, plays, pubs, etc, and kept themselves plainly dressed so as not to appear "frivolous" and therefore a sinner.

And plus it's how not who.

The concept of covenant was the at the center of the Puritans' plan for the proper ordering of society. The Puritans were Protestants.

William Bradford, Pilgrims and Puritans wrote in a plain style, not showing ornateness, which was frowned upon by both faiths. The writing reflected the character of those who would be reading the essays or diaries. In general, many topics were of a religious theme.

They prayed to God, went to church , studyed the Bible, visited the sick and gave food to the poor.

"They saw marriage as a civil rather than religious custom. Puritans arranged marriages for their children and no one could marry outside the church. A girl could veto a choice but no one expected her to use the right. Love meant physically caring for someone so romance was unnecessary for marriage. "

Puritan teachings had a large focus on the preservation of the traditional family. These strictly interpreted rules for women's behavior led some of them to seek greater freedom.