...Native Americans are considered a member of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Therefore, Puritans are a group of English protesters of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of England under Elizabeth ("Yahoo"). As the Native Americans moved into the area, they found land that appeared to be vacant and a banded. Native Americans had a better understanding approach to themselves in relation to the New World. Native Americans and Puritans differ through religious beliefs and education that led to conflict with one another yet, both groups had identities assigned to them that are not accurate. The difference between the Native Americans and Puritans religious beliefs is Native Americans believe that everyone is equal, and no one is better than one another (Kannan). Puritans believe that the bible has every answer to any possible question. Whatever sin the Puritans caused, they believed that it was done by Gods will, and no matter what they would be forgiven. Although, Native Americans would celebrate a death as an opportunity to mourn and remember the life...
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...The Colonial period in American literature had different views of it. There were the Puritans and Rationalism, Natives had their own voice, and poetry was a way of expression. When we look at these things they can tell us a lot about what it was like in the colonial period in America. The Puritans and Rationalism were two different views people had at this time. The Puritans were ruled by God through religious officials. They lived in villages where they owned private fields. In the middle of the village was where they held their religious services. Part of their beliefs were that man existed for the glory of God. On the other hand, there was Rationalism. The Rationalist called this time the “Age of Reason”. American writers believed that by...
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...1600s tensions between Native Americans and European settlers known as Puritans rose. As the Puritans pushed out the natives the Native Americans and they resented by kidnapping Puritan women and children. On the other hand, European traders kidnapped natives for profit. Rowlandson’s narrative and Squanto’s narratives are great examples of the tension between Native Americans and Puritans. Rowlandson’s narrative achieves its purpose by giving an account of her captivity and still representing her beliefs while presenting the Native Americans as savages. Rowlandson’s narrative is better presented. At first, she resented and hated her captors. She believed that her captors were demons and were going to kill and eat her. As her account progressed she began to eat the food that the native Americans gave her and she began to accept her fate. She became thankful to her captors for not killing her and treating her with hospitality and kindness. She did not try to run away but kept her faith in God and prayed that she would be saved and reunited with her children. Rowlandson uses visual imagery and is able to convey a sense of anger, despair, and eventually a bit of thankfulness towards her captors. Squanto’s narrative was not as well perceived. He was at first scared and angry when he was taken. He did not know if he would see his...
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...During the 1530’s King Henry the 8th severed ties with Rome and became the head of the Church of England. Englishmen who believed the Church of England was too corrupt and too similar to Catholicism were known as Puritans. Puritans attempted to purify the Church of England from within but failed. When King Henry the 8th died, his son King Charles I took over the throne. Under his leadership, the Church of England attempted to abolish Puritan practices and forced congregations to practice behind closed doors. Living under oppression, the puritans no longer believed they were able to practice their religion freely in their homeland and fled to New England with no charter form the king. On the voyage over from Europe, the Puritans not only brought Christianity but they also brought several deadly diseases. Once the Puritans reached America, they setup villages in New England where they could practice their religion without prosecution from the Anglican Church. One of the main goals of the Puritan colonies was to convert Indians to Christianity. The puritans sent out missionaries in an effort to convert Indians to...
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...The nineteenth century saw a shift from simple Puritan death practices to more symbolic and stratified Protestant death practices. Due to the rapid growth of cities and industrialization, death started to morph from a family-run affair to a highly structured and profitable business venture. Clear divisions emerged in urban centers in the nineteenth century. While death is an egalitarian concept, many wealthy and middle-class people wanted to demonstrate their prosperity and respectability through death practices. A funeral for a wealthy person would include preparations of the body in the home, transportation by relatives and friends to the grave site, and finally entombment in a particular place. Poor people, criminals, and African Americans...
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...The Innocent Native Americans The Native Americans were very friendly people. They were willing to help anyone out and did not expect anything in return. The Native Americans shared their land with the Puritans instead of giving it up and they thought of them as their neighbor sharing resources (McLean). They took the Puritans in and showed them how to live and survive off of the land better. In the settler/Native American conflicts, the Native Americans were the victims because of their displacement, pressure to change their religion, and death from diseases and warfare. The Puritans became friends with the Native Americans when they came over. They did not know how to live and survive off of the land as well as the Native Americans did so the Native Americans were generous enough to show them how to plant crops, hunt, etc. The Europeans were amazed that the Native Americans were very productive farmers. Since the Native Americans grew everything in the same field, they were able to replenish the soil and have a well-balanced diet (MacLean). The Native Americans took care of their land and made sure everything was cleaned up and ready for the next crops. According to MacLean, “each year, the native people also burned the undergrowth of the forests, making them easier to move through, and killing vermin” (MacLean). That was the only way that they could eat at that time. They could not just go out to eat at a restaurant if they wanted to because they did not have such a thing...
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...Eventually, the town shamefully realized what they had done. The playwright, Arthur Miller, wrote The Crucible as a display of a corrupt Puritan society as well as an allegory of modern American history. Miller demonstrates the government issues and religious conflicts of colonial and modern-day America in his play, The Crucible. Miller’s play reflects the corruption of humanity that is seen throughout American history. Puritan hypocrisy is a major focus of this work which is portrayed at the end of act one when Abigail Williams...
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...others, has called Puritan society a culture based on the principle of exclusion. With particular references to Winthrop, Edwards and historical events, discuss the evidence of this principle in Puritan life and culture. ______________________________________________ One may hear or read that the people who founded the early United States of America came to the “New World” in order to practice their religious convictions in peace and freedom, without being persecuted. They are often cited as examples. John Winthrop for instance, who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, has been quoted as a source of inspiration by numerous US presidents such as John Fitzgerald Kennedy or Ronald Reagan. Yet, one may consider that John Winthrop and Puritans in general are far from representing a tradition of tolerance and freedom. Looking at history and core principles of Puritanism, it cannot be denied that the puritans’ “city upon a hill” had more in common with a totalitarian regime than with the spirit of the Bill of Rights passed in 1789, which embodies far better the values of the United States of America. Puritans were definitely not tolerant. Their culture was based on the principle of exclusion as they did not accept any religious belief that differed from theirs, and rejected and even persecuted people who dared think and act differently from them. The Puritans’ texts available today can make one understand how intolerant Puritans were. In his famous...
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...Puritans and Native Americans Examine some of the Puritan beliefs revealed by the works we have covered that led to tensions, conflicts, and concerns among the colonists and/or the Native Americans. Colonization in America by the Puritans occurred in 1620. Unlike the pilgrims who had arrived in America earlier and settled in Jamestown, the Puritans came to reform the church. All Puritans had strong religious beliefs and wanted America to be a place for liberation. According to the article God in America, 2010 “Puritans did not break with the Church of England, but instead sought to reform it.” Also from the text, “The reign of James I (1603–1625), however, brought about the Separatist movement that sent the Pilgrims first to the Netherlands and then to Plymouth” (Puritanism, 58). The Puritans would settle and form the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Today this part of America is referred to as the New England States. Life at the beginning was hard for the Puritans and many tensions/conflicts would arise with the local Native Americans. Many of these conflicts would be documented through literary works, such as, William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, and St. John De Crevecoeur. Literary history has allowed society to gain an understanding of the conflicts between the Puritans and Native Americans. William Bradford was well known for his impact on the Plymouth colonies. In traveling to America he was a very religious man. “William Bradford was one of the greatest of colonial Americans...
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...create the model society. The Puritans where one group that wanted to make a society based on their beliefs. The Puritans wanted to purify the church of England. They also wanted to build a purified society. One aspiration that really took of for the puritans was their attempt to create a self-government. The Puritans wanted to have “A City upon a Hill”, in which the eyes of all people would have been upon them . They felt in order to build a purified society they would have to following in the way of the Bible. Basically people question whether the Puritans were an intolerant religious group of racists or the foundation of America? There are valid claims on both sides. Although, many historians believe Puritans had a direct effect on the rapid and successful development of American civilization, that the Puritans were able to come up with the idea of a “democratic” state, the whole process of a few governing and people elect came from them, but for the most part we can see through their beilefs and laws they were an intolerant group that goes against American values set in the constitution. The biggest American value set in our constitution is the separation of Church and State. We enjoy basic human freedoms, like freedom of religion and speech. This was not the case with the puritans. They imposed concrete belief in the Bible and lived by it. Maintaining your life based on the Bible sets valuable limits. Prior to following the Bible, the Puritans looked at laughter and pleasure...
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...The Puritan Contribution to American Culture In 1630, a group called the Puritans made their way to the New World, a part of it that would later become America. They brought with them a uniquely structured culture of their time, a structure shaped by factors of ideology and necessity that was to be shaped further by extenuating circumstances down the road. The Puritans undoubtedly had a massive impact on an infant America so long ago, an impact that can be seen to this day. With both forerunners to modern American ideology and social and political practices, and twisted stigmas that would take generations to water down and wash out, the Puritans left a mixed American legacy, but one that played a vital part in developing American society. The Puritans were, at heart, a religious group. Indeed, that was the primary purpose for which they left Europe and traveled to the New World: they desired the ability to assert their own religious practices in what they considered an empty world without persecution by a group with more power and conflicting ideas. This resulted in a variety of beneficial results as regards the common wealth, but was interspersed with a few less than benevolent practices. One of the better religious contributions, interestingly enough, came from the idea of predestination, the idea that no matter what an individual does, their fate to either heaven or hell has already been decided. This idea spurred people on to try to prove to their fellow inhabitants that...
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...insisted the doctrine of predestination and the absolute sovereignty of God in salvation. Puritans are English Protestants in the late 16th who wanted their church, the Anglican church, to follow the Calvinist model more closely and give up the remnant of Catholicism. Among those Puritans there was a group of people who lost faith in the Anglican church, decided to abandon it, separated themselves from it. These became Separatists(Pilgrim). Pilgrims took the Mayflower to come to America to practice religious freedom....
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...Puritans were English people who sought to “purify” the Church of England from within. They came by the thousands to the American colonies, although well after the Pilgrims. Pilgrims came to the colonies in small numbers. 102 Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower after fleeing Holland, and endured a rough winter on the stony coast of New England in the year 1620. Separatist pilgrims were more extremist Puritans who separated completely from the Church of England and moved to the American colonies for religious refuge. The Mayflower Compact was written by the 102 pilgrims aboard the Mayflower. Before disembarking, the pilgrims wrote up the document, which was essentially an agreement to form a government in Plymouth in which the majority rules....
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...Massachusetts. Although the religion is no longer practiced, some pure values of the Puritans have found their way into current life. People who practiced Puritanism took their religion very seriously- they lived everyday trying to please god so they could make for certain they would get into heaven, and they knew the Bible word for word (Kizer). While these extremities are not necessarily still observed today, one is still able see their other core values such as hard work, self-improvement, and self-reliance in today’s current age. Puritanism was religion...
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...reigning. However, there are many online article, books, or websites that support the idea of America remaining with the British for commercial and military purposes. But the delegates in the Second Continental Congress, for example, John Dickson, George read, and many other colony representatives gained an opening in seceding from the British Crown. Since the American Revolution War already began before the Second Continental Congress met, delegates wanted to raise a stronger army and weapon to counter the Crown forces. Additionally, an English American named Thomas Paine...
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