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    they did not know the land. Over time‚ many more people started to arrive and a nation started to development. Some groups of people gained freedom and liberty as time at on. However‚ some groups gained some freedom and liberty but not same equality as the white men had. Women in history have been fighting for their liberty ever since they arrived in America. Many women arrived on a ship with their husbands to the new world. The early women settlers had some liberty in the churches. Puritans came

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    Puritan Values

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    The Puritans’ ideas and values influenced the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies. They valued the importance of church and state bound as one. They also had that drive to work hard and be prosperous economically. But lastly‚ the Puritans had socially adopted the idea of the importance of God and living all for him. All of the ideas had influenced the development of the New England colonies The Puritans values the church and was the center of their town. The

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    The Puritan Influence

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    Puritans were able to greatly influence the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660’s economically‚ politically‚ and socially. Puritans were groups that were seeking a more pure form of Protestantism apart from the Anglican Church. They came to the New world in search of religious freedom and were a prominent group in the New England colonies. Though the Puritans could be seen as a less influential group then some of the others of the period‚ that would be a mistake as they were certainly

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    Puritan Literature

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    The Puritan literature of our first unit rebels against the greater context of world events occurring during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Puritan literature portrays that knowledge was gained through studying the Bible‚ and that the only purpose of gaining further knowledge would be to preserve the integrity of ones own soul‚ or to help others in saving theirs. The Puritans’ interests in gaining or preserving knowledge were solely religious‚ and they also believed that any knowledge

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    Puritan Rewards

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    motivated to avoid certain consequences or dangers. Puritan writers wrote most often in plain style or sermons during the early 15th century until the Revolutionary Period. Humanist writers‚ including Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine‚ changed the Puritans’ writing style to a new‚ unconcealed‚ and religiously based text during the late 16th century. People of this generation realistically motivate themselves with regards to the rewards that follow like the Puritans thought; however‚ people might be more motivated

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    The Puritan Dilemma

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    Reading Report The Puritan Dilemma Author: Edmund S. Morgan New York 1999 I. Subject. This book is a short biography about John Winthrop. In this book Morgan outlines how Winthrop struggled with the dilemma‚ first internally‚ as he dealt with the question of whether traveling to the New World represented a selfish form of separatism‚ the desire to separate himself from an impure England‚ or whether‚ as he eventually determined‚ it offered a unique opportunity to set an example for all men

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    The Puritan Dream

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    The Puritan vision for a “perfect” society changed over time due to the establishment of the American dream‚ the development of Colonial music‚ and the Great Awakening. The various views of the American Dream changed the thought of a “perfect” society for Puritans. The very beginning of the American Dream‚ was envisioned with the very first Puritan voyage to the Massachusetts Bay area. The belief that the Puritans were a group of individuals that were selected by God to reach new land was highly

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    The Virginians were better off than the Puritans were‚ because they had tobacco for a cash crop‚ they had a longer growing season‚ and they could trade and sell to England easier than the Puritans could. The Virginians were also more loosely structured than the Puritans‚ and were allowed to be individual people instead of one large mass. Smith and Bradford’s ways of leading their colonies were similar‚ yet so very different. Smith’s main concern was to make money and

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    Arbour October 7‚ 2013 Have We Outgrown Our Government? Given the current government shutdown‚ the crisis and anxiety that the country is now facing has now brought to light a question that many do not take into consideration in our current day. Is the current United States government efficient enough to run our prosperous and quite large country? Although many people believe that our government is a Democracy‚ they would be surprised to learn that our government‚ in essence‚ is actually

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    Puritan Period

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    Name: Taylor Cornelius Webquest for the Puritan Period    Directions: Have your answer sheet beside you as you work on the questions below. Record all your answers on your sheet. You are restricted to the hyperlinks listed below. All necessary information will be found on the selected sites.   1.)    What were some of the Puritan’s beliefs and values? List three of Puritans believed that their religion was the “correct” one. They also killed Quakers for preaching “inner light” doctrines

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