The Rise Of The Puritans

In England, the Puritans had been people of resources and political power, but King Charles did not accept their attempts to reform and restructured the Church of England (Anglican Church) to be more Protestant. In not following with their request to make the changes, they began to protest against the Church of England and its leaders, the English monarch and the parliament as well. When William Laud was chosen by Charles the first as Archbishop of Canterbury, who is pro-catholic and anti-puritan in 1630, made it an offense for any puritan to speak out thus resulting in placing a price on their heads. The Puritans were very disliked and marginalized, so in the 1630s, the Puritans fled England and headed to America where they settled in what