AMH 2010 Chapter Notes -Puritans

• School: University of Florida
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMH 2010
• Professor: Jeffrey Adler

Document Summary

French, german, irish, and puritans moving to the north east: religious freedom. Family units traveled to the north rather than the south: helped to establish a more stable society. Consider the north pretty opposite from the south. Beginning 1600"s 20,000 puritans moved to the north east. By the end of the century almost 130,000 puritans in the north east. Slavery"s role in puritan colony: not really there. Puritans were providentialists: everything bad that happened to them coincided with bad weather patterns, used religion to explain everything . Puritan life: sins were criminal and punishable by law. Disrespecting and disobedience of your parents was punishable by death: spying i. e. holy watching was legal, no room for change ambition was illegal, no room for social mobility, puritan society was not going to last. Puritans had very forward but ironically very backwards thinking. Man of household contained all power: father of the house was the governor of the household.