USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As dissidents, they sought religious freedom and economic opportunities in distant lands. They were religious people with a strong piety and a desire to establish a holy commonwealth of people who would carry out God’s will on earth.

Detailed explanation-2: -So, to the Puritans, religious liberty meant following the true faith, which to them was their faith, and so it was the right to worship as they thought was the proper way. Now, religious freedom came to America in other colonies, and not to Massachusetts for a long time.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Puritans were seeking freedom, but they didn’t understand the idea of toleration. They came to America to find religious freedom-but only for themselves. They had little tolerance or even respect for the Pequot Indians, who lived in nearby Connecticut and Rhode Island. They called them heathens.

Detailed explanation-4: -Puritans believed that it was necessary to be in a covenant relationship with God in order to be redeemed from one’s sinful condition, that God had chosen to reveal salvation through preaching, and that the Holy Spirit was the energizing instrument of salvation.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Puritans were members of a religious movement in the 1500s through early 1700s that sought to extricate Anglicanism from the influences of Catholicism. Many Puritans moved to America, especially the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to have the chance to establish their own societies away from Catholic influences.