Child-rearing in Puritan New England

Using the main sources of chapter 2, parenting of Puritan New England was explained as the responsibility of Puritan's parents. By introducing the importance of education to children, Puritan's parents agreed that raising children is a way to help ensure child's spiritual well-being (Hollitz, 22). The two main goals of Puritan to educate their children are reading and writing. They think this is a system that can shape future generations appropriately. Parents also teach the children basic beliefs about religion and government's principles (Hollitz, 22).

Puritan founded the northern colony of New England. After King Henry VII prohibited the Catholic Church from controlling the religion of that country (Roark 68), Puritanism developed from British Protestant Reform. Not all New England settlers are Puritans, but the Puritan religious belief was the main influencing factor in the New England lifestyle of the 17th century (Roark 70). In the second half of the 17th century Quaker began living in Massachusetts. Quakers believe that neither missionaries nor the Bible need to worship God. This is the opposite of the Puritan religion. Many communities in New England had very little interaction with Quakers and many Quakers saw violence under the name of God (Roark 79)

The Puritan culture of the 17th century New England colony was influenced by Calvinist theology believing in "fair and almighty god" and the way of life consisting of prayer and prayer behavior. Puritan participated in his own entertainment such as visual art, literature, music. Puritan received education, literacy skills, their culture was basically based on art and language. The most common explanation used by Puritan preachers is to preach the Bible. It means that they strive to incorporate their faith and theology directly into the Bible. Their sermons were greatly prepared and memorized, and lasted about an hour. Among the famous leaders who are still sermoning are Cotton Mather, John Davenport, Jonathan Edwards and others.

The New England Puritan grew after the Spanish invincible fleet fell to England and the generation of Puritans was children and grandchildren of Protestant Reform in Europe. As an idealist in the colonial era, Puritan came to the United States to seek freedom in a different way from Britain and to practice religion. Puritan believed that New England was a "visible" country of God, a place to establish a society that is the foundation of outgoing behavior. Both New England and Chesapeake area people both belonged to the same British origin in 1700, and both areas have two different directions. Because both groups face specific problems in this area and because the situation is different, each group is obliged to reconsider and rebuild their society. Therefore, the motivation of New England and New England, geographical and government differences