By Sam Jayden BRAD Colin and Ashley WHO

By: Sam, Jayden, BRAD !!!!, Colin, and Ashley

WHO WERE THE PURITANS? • Puritans are a group of people who wanted to escape theocracy of the Anglican Church and the King of England.

WHAT DISTINGUISHED THEIR FAITH FROM OTHER OF THEIR TIME PERIOD? • Puritans believed that the Bible is general rule, the law.

WHY DID THEY CROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN? • They gave up on separating church and state, Separatists, wanted to establish settlement in a New World.

WHAT WERE THEIR GOALS? • Their main goals was to “purify”, to separate the church and government. , the Anglican Church of England, because of it being too “corrupted. ”

GIVE SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF TYPICAL PURITAN BELIEFS. a) “To live with all my might, while I do live. ” ‐ To make the most out of every moment of your life. b) “Never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life. ” ‐ To not even try to be courageous. c) “Never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings. ” ‐ Not to take your anger out on an innocent person. • These are quoted from Jonathan Edward (Puritan)

IN PARTICULAR, HOW DID PURITANS FEEL ABOUT THE SABBATH DAY? ‐ Sabbath means Lord’s Day, Sunday ‐ Instead of going to church for a few hours, like today, they dedicated their hearts and minds to the entire day, making it a true Sabbath

WHAT WERE THE FOCAL POINTS OF PURITAN LIFE? ‐ The focal points or center points of Puritan Life was mainly Christianity

WHAT SORT ACTIVITIES WERE AND WERE NOT ACCEPTABLE TO THE PURITANS AS RECREATION? ‐ Activities that included mental centralization were acceptable, yet ones that include excitement and gambling were frowned upon.

HOW TOLERANT WERE THE PURITANS OF THOSE WHO DIFFERED FROM THEIR NORMS? ‐ Puritans were not tolerant at all, they believe that all mankind are cursed, sinful, and are incapable of lifting the cure from themselves.