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John Winthrop And The Puritans
John Winthrop was one of the major leaders of the first Puritan settlement in the United States. Winthrop sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Massachusetts on a ship named the Arbella in 1630, he thought about how hard it would be to survive in a rough new land. The Puritans on the boat had no idea what sort of weather or food they could expect or what dangers they might come across (29).

However, Winthrop and the Puritans wanted to show that their Religiously strict beliefs were truly the way to serve God. They were run out of England by Charles I for their beliefs, and they wanted to authorize them in this new land and create a growing and successful community that was successful because of their thinking.

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