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How Did The Puritans Affect America Today

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In America during the Enlightenment, the people who were known as the Puritans, or those people who did not like the Reformation of the Church of England, had both a large impact in society during their time, and in who we are in America today. The Enlightenment supported the basic philosophies and other ideas embraced by the Puritans. The Puritans had a very good reason to leave England due to corruption of the church, and religious persecution. Each of these things affected the Puritans mainly in the 16th and 17th century.

Puritans were a group of Protestants in the 16th and 17th century who did not like the Reformation of the Church of England was progressing. There were two types of Puritans, the Non-Separating Puritans and the Separatists. After Elizabeth the 1st became ruler, as well as after Queen Mary the 1st (known as Bloody Mary due to her execution of Protestants), most people in the church were ready to become Protestants. Many people that were still unhappy with the Reformation included but were not not limited to those such as Militant Calvinists, who were being called Puritans, who wanted a broader purification of the Church of England from the Catholic Abuses. They insisted that people who have a membership in the conversion experience should be independent of other congregations of the Anglican hierarchy. …show more content…

The effect of this started the Migration to create Massachusetts Bay Colony I the New World. After a decade of the colonies founding, many more Puritans started to emigrate over to the colonies of New England. Being that the colonists were mostly Puritans, they wanted for the younger Puritans and the new arrivals to know how to read and write. The main reason to learn how to read was for bible study as well as how to understand the laws of the Massachusetts Colony

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Liberty was the key issue for the Puritans. It was liberty, or the lack of, that pushed men to find safe haven, and it was freedom that enticed them to create a new society that never put state and the church hand in hand. By having a taste of liberty, they were introduced to ideas of equality and democracy which became an important part of the community they built and to the future nation that they will create. The foundation of Puritan principles such as piety, democracy and republican freedom, spread its influence over all the colonies, enlightening the “whole American world”.

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