In 1620, Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth

 English settlers began relying on Native Americans to teach them survival skills

 The new settlers exposed Native Americans to diseases that sometimes killed off an entire village

 In the 17 th and 18 th centuries smallpox was like modern day AIDS epidemic  The disease spread rapidly  It disfigured its victims  It was often times deadly

 1. Who are you?  --Explore views of current social and political critics and reformers…How do political developments shape my life?  How did political and religious developments shape the lives of Puritans who fled England?

 Religious Freedom  Thought Church of England had become corrupt  Catholic Church served mainly the upper class  King James was not sympathetic to the Puritan cause  James’ heir Charles 1 supported the persecution of many

 Inoculation means to inject a disease into a healthy person’s body so that they’ll build a resistance to the disease  Conformity means to follow the behavior of the majority  Protestants are Christians who reject the idea that the Catholic Church is the one true religion

 Cotton Mather was a Puritan minister who advocated for Inoculation  Inoculation involved deliberate infection of the smallpox virus  A doctor would inject a healthy person with matter from the sores of a person who had the disease

 In 1517 the spread of Protestantism began with the falling out between the Catholic Church and some of its followers  Escaped religious persecution  Anglican and Baptist

 Because of Adam and Eve’s sin of disobedience most of humanity was damned

 Hard work and worldly success are signs of God’s grace  People should live in a thrifty, self-reliant,and simple way  Salvation belongs to the elect who can be identified by their virtue

 The bible provided a model for Puritan writing  Diaries and histories were the most common forms of literary expressions  Puritans favored plain style writing  They avoided complicated figures of speech

 Puritans believed the bible was the literal word of God  Because the bible was such a huge necessity, Puritans strongly believed in education  Harvard College was founded in 1636 to train Puritan ministers

 The age of reason is also called the Enlightenment  People who subscribed to this thought called themselves rationalists  Rationalist saw God differently from Puritans  Sir Isaac Newton, who formulated the laws of gravity and motion was a rationalist

 Humans arrive at truth by using reason rather than religion or intuition  God created the universe but does not interfere in its workings  The world operates according to God’s rules and through reason, people can discover those rules

 People are basically good and perfectible  Since God wants people to be happy, they worship God best by helping other  Human history is marked by progress toward a more perfect existence

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 Followers from various religious backgrounds  Believed that God had made it possible for all people at all times to discover natural laws through the power of reason  Believed the universe was orderly and good  Best form of worship was to do good for others

 Puritans believed that humankind was ….  How did Cotton Mather combat the smallpox disease?