The Scarlet Letter Christian Han

Dress Puritans dressed modestly in sad or somber colors Puritan women wore a long black dresses that covered her almost from neck to toes. They wore a white apron and with their hair was bunched up behind a white head-dress Puritan men wore black clothes and short hair.

Daily Routine Focusing on how to please God Avoiding sin Men would hunt and Plant crops Women would sew, preserve vegetables, and cook

Historical events Puritans left Britain in order to North America in order to find a place where they could work towards religious, moral, and societal reforms. The Puritans believed that the Bible was God's true law, and that it provided a plan for living. The established church of the day described access to God as monastic and possible only within the confines of "church authority". Puritans stripped away the traditional trappings and formalities of Christianity which had been slowly building throughout the previous 1500 years. Theirs was an attempt to "purify" the church and their own lives. Most of the Puritans settled in the New England area. As they immigrated and formed individual colonies, their numbers rose from 17,800 in 1640 to 106,000 in 1700. In 1638, the first printing press arrived. By 1700, Boston became the second largest publishing center of the English Empire. The Puritans were the first to write books for children, and to discuss the difficulties in communicating with them

Puritan Beliefs The Puritans believed that the Bible was God's true law, and that it provided a plan for living. The established church of the day described access to God as monastic and possible only within the confines of "church authority". Puritans stripped away the traditional trappings and formalities of Christianity which had been slowly building throughout the previous 1500 years. Theirs was an attempt to "purify" the church and their own lives. The common unity strengthened the community. In a foreign land surrounded with the hardships of pioneer life, their spiritual bond made them sympathetic to each other's needs. Each church congregation was to be individually responsible to God, as was each person. The New Testament was their model and their devotion so great that it controlled their entire society. People of different theological views were asked to leave the community or to be converted.

Diet "Breakfast. The Colonial American breakfast was far from the juice, eggs and bacon of today. The stoic early settlers rose early and went straight to the chores that demanded their attention. In frontier outposts and on farms, families drank cider or beer and gulped down a bowl of porridge that had been cooking slowly all night over the embers...In the towns, the usual mug of alcoholic beverage consumed upon rising was followed by cornmeal mush and molasses with more cider or beer. By the nineteenth century, breakfast was served as late a 9 or 10 o'clock. Here might be found coffee, tea or chocolate, wafers, muffins, toasts, and a butter dish and knife...The southern poor ate cold turkey washed down with ever-present cider. The size of breakfasts grew in direct proportion to growth of wealth. Breads, cold meats and, especially in the Northeast, fruit pies and pasties joined the breakfast menus. Families in the Middle Colonies added special items such as scrapple (cornmeal and headcheese) and Dutch sweet cakes which were fried in deep fat. It was among the Southern planters that breakfast became a leisurely and delightful meal, though it was not served until early chores were attended to and orders for the day given...Breads were eaten at all times of the day but particularly at breakfast.“- A Cooking Legacy, Virginia T. Elverson and Mary Ann McLanahan

Position of Women According to Christine Leigh Heyrman, Puritan women, beginning in the early to mid 1600’s in Pre-Colonial America, played numerous major roles in regard to work and religion and were quite knowledgeable on a wide variety of topics, especially those related to child-rearing, household duties and serving the Church. Yet despite being “subordinate to their husbands” at both home and church, “Puritan ‘goodwives’ played an important part in the economies of their households and husbands entrusted them with a wide range of practical responsibilities including maintaining the needs of the household and actively performing in church functions while leading a “Puritan” lifestyle based on religious purity and devotion to one’s family, husband, children and fellow men and women within their communities.