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Migration
-1620-1640 the puritans migrated to the new world
War
-1642 English Civil War begins; American Puritans side with Parliament against King Charles I
revolution
-1688 Glorious Revolution: Protestant William of Orange invades England, and Catholic James II flees.

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John Winthrop
-who led the Puritans in the Great Migration, beginning in 1630
William Brewster
(c1566-1644), one of the leaders who helped found the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
John Robinson
Also a leader of the puritans.

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The puritans are people who moved from England to the new world to purify the church of Roman Catholic influences and practice. In a puritan household the women were tasked with doing the house chores as well as raising the children while the men went to work. The children went to school and helped around the house. Women and children had no right to vote, This privilege was given only to the men. Punishments were harsh as they included: hanging, public whippings, cutting off ears, boring holes in tongues, and stockades.

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The Puritan wrote in their point of view by recording in their diaries, sermon notes, poems, and letters. Puritans were deeply religious, so they wrote about religion and the importance of god.

Three authors and their Literary Works:
1) Thomas Vincent     (1634–1678)
"The True Christian’s Love to the Unseen Christ" (1677)
It about the love for Christ in truth and strength

2) David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards
"The Life and Diary of David Brainerd"(1749)
A bibliography of David, edited by a Puritan, Jonathan Edwards. David was an early American missionary whose selfless life of prayer.

3) John Owen
(1616–1683)
"The Mortification of Sin"
One of the best known of the Puritans work. It's about  sets  foundational principles of mortification, poses the  characteristics
of Puritan devotion on God.

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The beginning of the Salem Witch trial started with a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and was accused of witchcraft.The first executed witch was Bridget Bishop and she was accused for witchcraft.
The purpose of witch trials was to eliminate women who were labelled as "witch" Which was actually an event of mass women slaughter. In 1692, people who were delusional, hysterical, and invidious, were the ones to create the trend in colonial Massachusetts.

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Originally from England. The puritans migrated to the northern English colonies in the 1620's to 1630's because they were under siege from the churches and crowns. The puritans got their name because they wanted too purify the church of any resemblance to the Roman Catholics.