Religion and the European Colonists of North America

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This paper looks at the dominance of religion in the lives of early northern colonists of what would later become the United States of America. It focuses primarily on the migration of Puritans from England and the transfer of their cultural idiosyncrasies. It then charts the progression of religion from Puritanism to other forms of Christianity within this area.

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"The Puritan exodus was typified by middle-class nuclear families, able to pay their own way and 'on a divine mission to create a model society committed to the proper worship of God. ' Many left England to escape the political unease and the imminent civil war and also religious persecution from the Anglican Church towards Puritans. Indeed 'religion was mentioned not merely as their leading purpose but as their only purpose' for leaving England and settling in New England. Those arriving on the shores of the 'Bible Commonwealth' of Massachusetts Bay from the 1630s had been refined from English society and were 'honest men...godly men...and not of the poorer sort.'"

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