Puritans And The Protestant Reformation

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The Protestant Reformation brought to light a group of individuals in England who fused their religious views with political ideas of freedom. With these views in mind, these people, called Puritans, felt that their liberties were God-given rights and that when their rights were threatened or limited, they were insulting God himself. The colonies in Northern America such as those founded by the Puritans in Plymouth Rock, or for followers of all religions in Rhode Island, were made possible by the endless pursuit of free practicing religion. On Plymouth Rock, in 1620, arrived a small group of especially devout Puritans, Separatists, motivated by the King James I to leave the Church of England as well as the land. Arriving here, they “viewed