Was there a mission to America that the Puritans wanted to acheive? If so, what was it and did they acheive it?
2007-09-16 14:29:29 · 6 answers · asked by JANET H 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
To worship as they believed---religious freedom. Yes the Puritan's achieved their quest of religious freedom here in the New World--America.
2007-09-16 14:37:08 · answer #1 · answered by flautumn_redhead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Puritans were a group of relgious people that did not agree with the Church of England because they felt it was too into decor and frivolous things. They decided to move to America so they could worship God the way they wanted to. That was their mission and they more or less succeeded.
2007-09-16 21:56:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they wanted to leave the church of england behind and establish a home where they felt they could worship freely. the name the puritans was given to them in mockery by the aristocracy that ran the church of england. they wanted to purify the church of england but they were viewed kind of like a small but harmless annoyance and mostly a bad joke. they called themselves "the godly" and tried to aspire to perfection -- a life without sin and as close to being a little god as possible. they had issues with the ritual and pomp of the established church -- god would not wear vestements or play organs or genuflect so neither should followers of god.
if you think of the snobbiest person at school that thinks they are better than anyone else and know everything and nobody else knows anything then thats kind of like what the pilgrims were like. they weren't team players. it was largely their inability to get along with anyone that prompeted them to set out across the atlantic.
2007-09-16 21:44:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their mission was fairly simple. They wanted to form a society that suited their religious beliefs without interference. They did achieve it, and they resisted outsiders who wanted to come in and change things - though eventually as more and more people with differing opinions came to New England they could not have everything their own way.
2007-09-16 21:36:29 · answer #4 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Escaping religious persecution, and purifying the church of england.
Yes, they succeeded on both accounts
2007-09-16 21:37:06 · answer #5 · answered by SG22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it was more that they wanted to keep their own faith safe from government control
2007-09-16 21:37:02 · answer #6 · answered by Brian F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋