SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE PURITANS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The New England Plan
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The Rules to Live By
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The New England Way
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Metacom. Emphasizes duty, godliness, hard work, and honesty. A form of self government in which puritans met to make laws and other decisions for the community.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Which of the following best describes the Puritans and their beliefs? Favored English Catholics and “high church” forms of religious forms of religious ceremony.
Detailed explanation-4: -Puritans saw hard work as a means of proving that they were among the elect whom God had predestined for salvation; their productivity would signal their election. Still, their religion also restrained them from working all the time. In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sunday was a day of mandatory rest, enforced by law.