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- The Puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England and worked towards religious, moral and societal reforms.
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- The Church of England had become a product of political struggles and man-made doctrines.
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- The Puritans believed that the Bible was God's true law, and that it provided a plan for living.
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- As Puritans immigrated and formed individual colonies, their numbers rose from 17,800 in 1640 to 106,000 in 1700.
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- Religious exclusiveness was the foremost principle of their society.
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- Since God was at the forefront of their minds, He was to motivate all of their actions (it worked both for them and against them).
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- People of opposing theological views were asked to leave the community or to be converted.
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- In principle, they emphasized conversion and not repression.
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- The doctrine of predestination kept all Puritans constantly working to do good in this life to be chosen for the next eternal one.
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- Since the church elders were also political leaders, any church infraction was also a social one.
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- Words of hell fire and brimstone flowed from the mouths of eloquent ministers as they warned of the persuasiveness of the devil's power.
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- The sermons of Jonathan Edwards, a Puritan minister, show that delivery of these sermons (the card before) became an art form.
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- This constant subjection of the probability of an unseen danger led to a scandal of epidemic proportions.
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- Those who were "possessed by the devil" were forced to make confessions of their evil liaisons in order to protect their families and properties from harm . (Those who denounced witchcraft thereby calling the witnesses liars were then accused t
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- Cotton Mather, a leader of the group, quietly led the way in bringing this crisis (witchcraft) to an end.
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- The devotion they held in maintaining a religious society in isolation fueled the fire of the witchcraft scandal.
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- Reading of the Bible was necessary to living a pious life.
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- Three English diversions were banned in their New England colonies; drama, religious music and erotic poetry. The first and last of these led to immorality. Music in worship created a "dreamy" state which was not conducive in listening to God.
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- Puritans formed the first formal school in 1635, called the Roxbury Latin School. Four years later, the first American College was established; Harvard in Cambridge. Children aged 6-8 attended a "Dame school" where the teacher, who was usually
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- The Puritans were the first to write books for children, and to discuss the difficulties in communicating with them.
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- The large number of people who ascribed to the lifestyle of the Puritans did much to firmly establish a presence on American soil. Bound together, they established a community that maintained a healthy economy, established a school system, and focused an
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- The moral character of England and America were shaped in part by the words and actions of this strong group of Christian believers called the Puritans.
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