Puritan Fact Sheet pg 54. -Puritan Exodus from England is between 1620-1640.

-Puritans wanted to create a set of independent farm families. -Puritans wanted to establish a holy commonwealth -Hoped to reform the Church of England -Puritans mainly reside in Plymouth and Massachusetts bay a)The Pilgrims -Pilgrims were religious separatists who left the church of England. -First migration is to Holland and they live with the calvinists, next they move to americas -William Bradfors is the leader of the pilgrims -Create their own covenant of government the Mayflower Compact -Mayflower compact uses the selfgoverning religious congregation as the model fo r its political structure b) John Winthrop and the Massachusetts bay clony -John Winthrop leads 900 hundred puritans in 1630to the Massachusetts bay colony where he becomes the first govenor. -Puritans envision a reformed Christian society, a genuinely New England that would nspire religious change in England and throughout Europe -transformed their joint stock corporation, the general court of shareholders in to a representative political system with a govenor, council, assembly. To ensu re rule by godly, Puritans limited the right to vote and hold office to men who were church members. -Despite laws forbidding a established religion the Puritans established Puritan ism as a state supported religion. -The above point barred other faiths from conducting services, and used the bibl e as a legal guide. -Puritans plzce power in the ordinary members of the congregation. -Puritans are also congregationalists -Puritans follow the teachings of John Calvin and the Idea of Predestination whi ch stated that God had already chosen the elect or those going to be saved. - Roger Williams endorses seperation of church and state in Plymouth, condemning the legal establishment of congregationalism -Anne Hutchinson held weekly prayer meetings for women in her house and accused various Boston clergymen of placing to much emphasis on good behaviour. -Hutchinson denies that salvation can be reached by good deeds -There is no such thing as covenant works rather salvation is reached by covenant e -Covenant works-life for obedience and death for disobedience -Covenant grace-eternal life for all people who receive forgiveness of sin throu gh Christ -women are inferior to men -Puritan women can not be ministers nor had a vote in congregation -Coercive Policies in Winthrops colonies along with desire for better farm land prompted mmany puritans to migrate to the Connecticut river where Thomas hooker is located -Thomas Hooker-secure a charter for self governing rule by king charles the II ( 1662) -Similar to Massachusets bay colony the Connecticut plan of government provided for a legally established church an aelcted govenor, and assembly, however it gr anted voting rights to most propertyowning men, not just church members -Change over time from the elect to the normal class -Puritans want established church to be reformed, greater authority for parliame nt -Oliver Cromwells parliamentary forces led by Oliver Cromwell were victorious, i n 1649 parliament executes king charles I -Puritans come to preserve the pure Christian church, expecting to return to bri tan in triumph -When the failure of the English revolution dashed their sacred mission puritan ministes creat a holy societ in America

-Puritans believ the natural world is full of natural spirits -The Idea of spirits stems from catholic beliefe of miracles -1675 Intellectual movement the English Enlightenement promotes rational scienti fic views of the world III. Building yeoman societies -Puritans consciously rejected the feudal systemof the traditional European soci ety Puritans refuse to live as tenants of wealthy aristocrats or submit to oppressiv e taxation by distant gov -General courts bestow land to proprietors who then distribute it to male heads of families. -Most men have a vote in the town meetings -Inna society of independent households and self-governing communities ordinary farmers had a much more political power -Some of the poores men (Nathaniel Fish) owned 8 acrs of land and jad a two room apartment however he had a vote -The yeoman farmers levy taxes enacted ordinances, regulated use of the common f ields and selected men to manage town affairs -Chose town representatives to the general court which gradually displaced the g ovenor Religoue-Stark traditions to more relaxed and laxed laws Political-elect and powerof high status to the ordinary man