please just for educated people. history?

Question

and how the southerners and the northerners differ their interpretations of the constitution and the Union?

how did the Puritans promote virtue?

Answer 1

> how did the Puritans promote virtue

"Puritan culture emphasized the need for self examination and the strict accounting for one’s feelings as well as one’s deeds."

"Like the early church fathers, they eliminated the use of musical instruments in their worship services, for various theological and practical reasons. Outside of church, however, Puritans were quite fond of music and encouraged it in certain ways."

"Some suggested that it is a "Puritan spirit" in the United States' political culture that create a tendency to oppose things such as alcohol and open sexuality. Historically speaking, the Puritans were not opposed to drinking alcohol in moderation (Jim West, Drinking with Calvin and Luther!, Oakdown Books, 2003 (ISBN 0-9700326-0-9), pp. 68ff) or to enjoying their sexuality within the bounds of marriage as a gift from God. In fact, spouses (male or female) were disciplined if they did not perform their sexual marital duties, in accordance with 1 Corinthians 7 and other biblical passages. Because of these beliefs, they did publicly punish drunkenness and sexual relations outside of marriage."

"In "Hellfire Nation", James A. Monroe suggests that some opposing tendencies within Puritanism—its desire to create a just society and its moral fervor in bringing about that just society, which sometimes created paranoia and intolerance for other views—were all at the root of America's current political landscape."

"Puritan" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans#Beliefs

Answer 2

I know that the Union had varying thoughts on that issue, and so did the south... Obviously, I would think the Union fully supported the Constitution, I'm also pretty sure the South had their opinions on the Constitution as well, they most likely didn't believe in it as much, also I believe they wanted some "Changes" to it, but I'm not totally sure on that. I'm sorry but I don't really know much about the Puritans....