One of the first steps that the Puritans took to cleansing people so that they would be acceptable to God was to educate. By educating people, they could read and study the bible. Puritan towns had many schools as soon as 5 years after they were founded. Not only were they focused on the citizens' education but the clergy as well. A continuing goal was to further education among the clergy, and so ensure that not only w

Despite the fact that they did not come over to America to start a new form of government, their aspirations for government were to have it enforce God's word. Since most government officials were clergy or of that sort, they did not reject religion being involved in government. During the Salem witch trials, the court did not have any problem accusing people just on he said she said evidence. As long as they were purifying their community it was ok. The government did not take such drastic measures only with the Salem witch trial, but also if you were not of Puritan faith. If you believed in some other form of religion, they would ask you to leave to colony, or be executed. This was a result of them ridding their colony of the "bad ones" which god had not ordained. Even though severe sentences, the Puritan'

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