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Title: The Puritans


1
The Puritans
  • A Journey Across the Ocean

2
Mayflower Excursion
  • Mayflower 1620
  • Religious reformers, withdrew from the Church of
    England
  • Known as Separatists

3
The Pilgrims Have Landed!
  • Established settlement in Plymouth, Mass.
  • Natives helped them survive first winter
  • Eventually engulfed by Mass. Bay Colony

4
What To Do Now?
  • Mass Bay Colony tried to reform church of England
    from within
  • Theocracy state under immediate guidance of God
  • Hoped to establish community guided
    in all aspects by the Bible

5
Puritan Literature
  • Occasional sense of humor
  • Hardships of daily life practical
  • Radical yet conservative

6
Puritan Beliefs.YIKES!
  • Exist for the glory of God
  • Bible sole expression of Gods will
  • Predestination (John Calvin)

7
Beliefs (YIKES!) Cont
  • Original sin
  • Accomplish good only through continual hard work
    and self-discipline
  • Puritan ethic

8
Down Go the Pilgrims
  • Decline in New England by early 1700s
  • Liberal Protestant congregation
  • Pilgrims react against this new freedom

9
The Great Awakening
  • Series of religious revivals led by ministers
    Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
  • Attracted many, but did little to revive
    old-fashioned Puritanism

10
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  • The Puritans are long gone, but we still regard
    their values as American virtues
  • Hard work
  • Frugality
  • Self-improvement
  • Self-reliance
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