What made the Puritan tradition in New England a "curious mix of freedom and repression"? How did Puritan New England eventually become a less religiously repressive society?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Little distinction between religious and secular authority; adult men were freemen who chose ministers and elected local men to offices through town hall meetings
- Local communities had considerable authority but were tightly bound by religious restrictions; Puritans came to America to establish their own version of the "right and perfect way," not to allow the free practice of religion
- Other religious groups and dissidents banned or exiled: Anglicans, Baptists, Quakers; Quakers tortured and executed for proselytizing
- King Charles II ordered a stop to religious persecution in Massachusetts
- Roger Williams made one of the first formal arguments for religious toleration-"Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils"
- John Locke's "A Letter Concerning Tolerance": argued that churches were voluntary societies and could only gain genuine converts through persuasion; the state had no legitimate concern with religious belief
- Act of Toleration: granted religious freedom to Protestant dissenters; pressure from English authorities resulted in Massachusetts and Connecticut permitting other Protestant denominations to meet openly although Puritan congregations were still supported through taxation
- By the early 1700s, Anglican, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches were organized in New England
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