Influence Of The Puritans

The Puritans came and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1630 with the ideas to shape New England culture. The Puritans were religious separatists, which meant they had left the Church of England. King James the first threatened to push the puritans out or do worse. In reslult the puritans ended up leaving and finding their own place to settle. Their main purpose was to spread their religious beliefs and to find land for economical reason.Puritans held very strong beliefs on the way they lived their life. They wanted to spread their beliefs and ideas among the colonies. The amount of Puritans continued to grow larger based on the control of the leaders, 13 years after they settled there were about 20,000 puritans living in the area. The Puritans had their own ideas and values which helped shape the political, economic, and social structure of the New England colonies.

The first leader of the Puritans ,John Winthrop, main purpose was to create a “city upon the hill”, which in terms is meant as a religious statement. The Puritans wanted to make the Anglican Church pure and wanted people to follow their ideas and values. They wanted to build a religion based colony.The puritans were known as the congregationalists, they wanted to run the church and have the power to hire and fire the preacher and have the power of taxes. They believed man was born sinful. Puritans believed in a concept called , Doctrine of the elect, which consisted of the Puritans believing that they were preselected for heaven or hell. The Puritans believed their ideas and values would influence the community and positively affect the