Puritan Settlers In India

Before global exploration, America was separated from the rest of the world, people in the rest of the world do not know about this place. They thought the world is only made up for Europe, Africa and Asia. But the discovery by Christopher Columbus shocked the entire world. He found a new continent that was not on the map and thought It was India. Despite of incorrectly naming it India. It was a history changing event. After his astonishing discovery. More and more Europeans followed his trail and comes to the new world with different expectations. The puritans are one of the earliest group of settlers that arrived in the new world. And they also encountered the Native Americans that already settled there. What were Native Americans’ lives

The name “Puritans” (they were sometimes called “precisionists”) was assigned by the enemies of the movement).They escaped from Europe and sought religious freedom,therefore,the new world that “no one settled before”(Lord, Lewis, and Sarah Burke.)became the best option. Puritans moved to the new world in order to escape from religion prosecution. One thing about Puritan settlement groups,according to History.com,is that Puritan settlers usually move to America with their entire family.They brought their children and spouses with them to the new world.While other groups are filled with young and middle aged men.On the other hand,Puritans were extremely religious.In the early Colonies, Church was mandatory for everyone who lived in the colony.And since they believed that they were doing God’s work,they were extremely intolerance towards people with different belief. People with different belief were hanged in Boston in some case. In early times of the colonies, Puritans are extremely harsh and strict on their rules because they believed that earthly punishment is nothing comparable to God’s punishment. There was no compromise when it is about sins. However,Unlike what people think, Puritans did have fun. They had celebrations and festivals. Children can play games under parent’s permission. Puritans also valued education, they had schools in every community supported by taxes from each community. People were educated in order to read the scripture. Therefore, Puritans were generally well literate .Although women are educated, in the early Puritan society, women and children had no political power at all when it comes to Church decisions. It indicated that Puritans were discriminating against women and believed women should just stay out of men’s business. That is also the reason why Anne Bradstreet was not a role model for the women in the early Puritan settlements. Puritans in the early