The puritans came to the New World to escape religiouse prosecution from the church of England. They intended to start a new branch of the church
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A four-part series on the largest groups of emigrants from the British Isles to Colonial America. They were: the PURITANS who came, ... Those servants who did come were usually already part of the family before leaving England--not part of a labor draft. With the Puritans, the nuclear family was very important and the...
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Students Report on; Puritans Come to America ... The Puritans Come to America ... People called them the Puritans because they wanted to purify or get rid of the Catholic influences. In their religion they discovered new land. When they just got done building, it snowed and many people died. They hunted deer, squirrel,
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Mrs. Hughes' Fifth Grade Class ; Lindbergh Accelerated School ; St. Joseph, MO ; ... Last Updated February 1998 ... (c)Janice Coffman 1998...
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Associated exclusively with no single theology or definition of the church (although many were Calvinists), the English Puritans were known at first for their extremely critical attitude regarding the religious compromises made during the reign of Elizabeth I. Many of them were graduates of Cambridge University,
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For them 2 Corinthians made it clear: "Come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord." To achieve and preserve a simplicity and 'purity' that they felt had been lost amid the some of ... Having gone back to England to obtain the backing of the Virginia Company, 102 Pilgrims set out for America. ... THE PURITANS...
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More to the point, he informed anyone who would listen that the King of England did not have the right to grant land to the Puritans that belonged to the Indians. Instead of coming to America to convert the Indian, they had come to steal him blind.
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2. Describe the Puritans' clothes. 3. Describe some of the Puritans' traits (i.e. hard-working) Give specific details. 4. What were some of the accomplishments of the Puritans (include year)? 5. Why did the Puritans come to America?
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The Puritans were seeking freedom, but they didn't understand the idea of toleration. They came to America to find religious freedom—but only for themselves. They had little tolerance or even respect for the Pequot Indians, who lived in nearby Connecticut and Rhode Island.
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