2. Puritans: a significant group of English Protestants in the 16th and
17th centuries. A Puritan was any person seeking 'purity' through
worship and doctrine. Puritans felt that the English Reformation had not
gone far enough.
Their features:
• piety, simplicity of dress and modesty of life.
• man exists for the glory of God;
• first concern is to do God's will and so to receive future happiness.
Many of their beliefs were similar to those of Calvinists.
3. John Calvin(1509-1564):
•French theologian and pastor
•devoted to Protestant Reformation
•developed Calvinism
•his seminal work: The Institutes of
the Christian Religion in 1536.
4. "Bloody Mary's" reign During her five-year reign, she killed 280
protestants, because she had a different religious
belief - Catholicism.
Protestants left England
Elizabeth's reign
returned
By the end of Elizabeth's
reign
reform Separate and set up
Separatists
Mary
5. Who are they?
Pilgrims refers to the one hundred Puritans who boarded the
‘Mayflower’ bound for the New World on September, 1620. They Settled
in a rocky harbor called Plymouth, in
present-day, in Massachusetts, United
States.
Why did they come to America?
• to Escape religious persecution
• to Seek religious freedom
• to find a place fit for living
and preaching religion
the Mayflower
6. He was one of the Founding
Fathers of the United States.
Franklin retained a lifelong
commitment to the Puritan
virtues.
Franklin passed puritan
virtues into the American
culture permanently. He had a
“passion for virtue.”
These Puritan values included
his devotion to egalitarianism,
education, industry, thrift,
honesty, temperance, charity
and community spirit.
