Compare And Contrast The Religion And Government In The Colonial Era
Colonial Era - Religion and Government.
The New Englanders went to a Congregationalist meeting house for Church services. The meeting houses became bigger and much less crude when the population grew after the 1660s. They were predominantly Puritans, who by and large, led strict religious lives. The clergy was highly educated & devoted to study of both scripture and the natural science. The New England laws assumed that citizens who stayed away from conventional religious customs were a threat to civil order and should be pursued for their nonconformity.
The Mid-Atlantic & Southern Colonies inhabitants of the middle and Southern colonies went to churches whose style and decoration look more familiar to modern Americans than the plain
The New Englanders went to a Congregationalist meeting house for Church services. The meeting houses became bigger and much less crude when the population grew after the 1660s. They were predominantly Puritans, who by and large, led strict religious lives. The clergy was highly educated & devoted to study of both scripture and the natural science. The New England laws assumed that citizens who stayed away from conventional religious customs were a threat to civil order and should be pursued for their nonconformity.
The Mid-Atlantic & Southern Colonies inhabitants of the middle and Southern colonies went to churches whose style and decoration look more familiar to modern Americans than the plain