Puritan Beliefs and Values

A Changing Society

Housing

• Describe some of the differences of the two houses below.

Housing

• Which house is larger?• Which House is more

complicated?• Which house is more

decorative?• How does a person build

a larger, more complicated, more decorative house?

• What does a change in housing describe about Puritan society?

Economic Activities in Colonial New England

• Fishing, farming, shipbuilding, etc…

• These activities require a need for more m_________.

Economic

• More merchants means more money from trade, which provides more resources for larger houses.

• This change in housing represents economic change.

• How does this economic change affect Puritanism?

Economic

• Showing of wealth represents pride (a sin).

• Sins represent a weakening of the Puritan faith and mission.

Puritan Values

• Where will Puritan values diminish next?

Government

• Thomas Hooker-Left MA, Puritans had too much power in government

Daily Life

• Loosening of strict laws.

Church

• Roger Williams-had to leave MA, he believed in Religious Tolerance (a willingness to let others practice their own religion). This act confronts one of the paradoxes of the Puritans.

• Later generations of Puritans did not have the same religious fervor (intense feeling), as their predecessors.

• A wave of revivals known as the Great Awakening swept New England beginning in the 1720s, dividing churchgoers into New Light (evangelical Calvinists) and Old Light (more moderate) wings. An increasing minority were calling themselves Baptists. This has a close connection with Plainfield, CT