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A lot of literary works were poetry about the religion of puritans, their love for god, and following gods plan

Anne Bradstreet "Upon a fit of sickness" - Was about her having to carry out gods mission as it was her duty and "her love for the world and the desire for eternal life"

Edward Taylor "Upon the sweeping flood" Is about god sending a storm and flood to wash away mans lustful desires because it was unwanted in heaven.

Edward Taylor "Gods Determinations touching his Elect: and The Elects Combat in their Conversion, and Coming up to God in Christ together with the Comfortable Effects thereof" He talks about the effects of god and how Christianity was changing the grace of his soul

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Who were the puritans? And where did they come from.

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Who were the puritans? And where did they come from.

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Puritans were English protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries with strict religious discipline.

google dictionary

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The Salem witch trials started when teenage girls accused a Caribbean slave, and two other women of witch craft, and making the girls become possessed, after the teen girls started acting out and shrieking. Its significant because its one of the only events people know about puritans and it led to other social hysteria's in America

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They fled england when King Charles came into power, because the puritans in parliament strongly opposed his authority, so most fled to the americas to build their own community based off of their beliefs.

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They sailed to the new world from 1629 to 1640. Over 80,000 puritans fled to the Americas. When they first arrived and established Boston, life was hard but they had the freedom to worship who they wanted as they tried to reform the church in England.

"the puritans"
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/puritans.html

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Puritans were very strict and had censorious moral beliefs. They believed that god wanted them to live by the scriptures, church was mandatory, political and religious life were intertwined completely, and only male members were aloud to vote on matters of the town. After establishing Boston the puritans started to face dissent, people causing problems or trying to change beliefs within the community.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/puritans-in-america-beliefs-religion-history.html

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William Bradford, the second govern of plymouth colony. The colony was on his private land where he kept them same from indians, droughts and crop failures.

John Winthrop, was a govern of the Boston colony and he formed the colony's govt. and shaped its legislative policy

Thomas hooker, A minster in boston who took 100 puritans to start a new colony in connecticut because the govt officials had to much power, he wanted to limit the power of govt.