1. Puritanism
A Divine Mission to Establish an Ideal Community

2. The Great Migration (1628-1640)
20,000 fled England
Were persecuted
Est. Massachusetts Bay Colony

3. William Bradford Arrived on the Mayflower in 1620
Was Governor 30 times
Wrote historical account

4. Puritan beliefs: Absolute Sovereignty
God rules
God is in control
We are the chess pieces

5. Providence God provides (the good and the bad)
God causes everything to happen

6. Natural Depravity We are born sinners We are naturally evil
A stands for Adam:
“In Adam’s fall, we sinned all.”

7. Election God chooses who goes to heaven Through God’s grace
NOT good works or faith

8. Grace
It’s a present from God
The ability to love unconditionally

9. Additional Values America as Promised Land (American Dream)
Strict moral code
Community more important than individual
Conformity to community
Simplicity and plainness

10. Puritans and the Wilderness
Puritans settle in the wilderness and they “fight” against it and the “savages” in order to settle an ordered environment.
The forest reflects the wild/savage aspects of the human nature which the Puritans fear.

11. Religious Flow Chart

12. Puritan Timeline
1608 – England’s religious “Separatists” go to Holland
1607 – First permanent English colony in N.A est. at Jamestown, Virginia
1616 – Shakespeare dies (just to put this in perspective)
1620 – Pilgrims land at Plymouth
1630 – Mass. Bay colony est.
1630 – Major William Hathorne emigrates from England

13. Timeline cont.
1636 – Roger Williams founds Providence Colony for religious liberty.
1636 – Harvard College is founded.
1637 – Anne Hutchinson is banished from Boston for ‘traducing the ministers,” and settles Portsmouth, Rhode Island
1656 – Mistress Hibbins is hanged for witchcraft
1692 – Salem Witch Trials begin