Puritans of Massachusetts Bay and Pilgrims?

Question

The Puritan Massachusetts Bay colony differed from the Pilgrim Plymouth colony in what way?

A) The Bible was their legal guide.

B) They followed Calvinism.

C) They grew different crops.

D) Gender hierarchies structured society.

i know the puritans followed calvinism, not sure about the pilgrims.

and,

how did puritans encourage widespread ownership of land?

i was thinking "by granting land according to wealth" becuase it sounds like somethign they'd believe in, but it could also be:

- having proprietors divide the land among themselves,

- dividing townships equally among settlers, OR

- having the General Court divide land according to need.

help?!

Answer 1

The Pilgrims (known in England and among themselves as the Pilgrim Fathers) were essentially dissidents who declared that their differences with the Church of England were irreconcilable and could only be satisfied by complete isolation. they were a splinter group completely separate from the Puritans. They intially fled to the Netherlands, but later engineered a deal which allowed them to set up a colony in North America.

The Pilgrims used the Bible almost exclusively as their guide, although they did produce the Mayflower compact, which was a good piece of civic legislation.

Also, curiously, they were not prudes about s*x or sexual practices, but would talk about it openly during town meetings!

The Puritans, by contrast, felt that the Reform Movement which separated the Church of England from the Catholic Church had not gone far enough and called for a greater commitment to God.

Of course both the Puritans and the Pilgrims grew so fanatical in their zeal that they eventually turned upon their own memberships. The Pilgrims, of course, produced the Salem witch trials, which have since been exposed as both the work of attention-seeking children and an attempt to secure land for the prosecutors. The Puritans, in their turn, abolished the English monarchy (and killed Charles I), closed taverns, and even vandalized English churches in the name of "holiness".

Both Puritan and Pilgrim political excesses personify a quote by J. Michael Straczynski, "The First Rule of the Fanatic: When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy."