Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th-17th centuries who felt the English Reformation did not go far enough. They emphasized piety, simplicity, and doing God's will. Many Puritans' beliefs were similar to Calvinism. During Queen Mary's reign, 280 Protestants were killed for their religious beliefs. This caused some Protestants to leave England. Later, under Queen Elizabeth, Protestants returned. By the end of her reign, some Puritans had become Separatists and set up their own churches. The Pilgrims were 100 Puritans who fled on the Mayflower to escape religious persecution and seek freedom in America, settling in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. Benjamin Franklin retained

1. Protestantism, Puritans, Separatism and Pilgrims

2. Puritans: a significant group of English Protestants in the 16th and
17th centuries. A Puritan was any person seeking 'purity' through
worship and doctrine. Puritans felt that the English Reformation had not
gone far enough.
Their features:
• piety, simplicity of dress and modesty of life.
• man exists for the glory of God;
• first concern is to do God's will and so to receive future happiness.
Many of their beliefs were similar to those of Calvinists.

3. John Calvin(1509-1564):
•French theologian and pastor
•devoted to Protestant Reformation
•developed Calvinism
•his seminal work: The Institutes of
the Christian Religion in 1536.

4. "Bloody Mary's" reign During her five-year reign, she killed 280
protestants, because she had a different religious
belief - Catholicism.
Protestants left England
Elizabeth's reign
returned
By the end of Elizabeth's
reign
reform Separate and set up
Separatists
Mary

5. Who are they?
Pilgrims refers to the one hundred Puritans who boarded the
‘Mayflower’ bound for the New World on September, 1620. They Settled
in a rocky harbor called Plymouth, in
present-day, in Massachusetts, United
States.
Why did they come to America?
• to Escape religious persecution
• to Seek religious freedom
• to find a place fit for living
and preaching religion
the Mayflower

6.  He was one of the Founding
Fathers of the United States.
 Franklin retained a lifelong
commitment to the Puritan
virtues.
 Franklin passed puritan
virtues into the American
culture permanently. He had a
“passion for virtue.”
 These Puritan values included
his devotion to egalitarianism,
education, industry, thrift,
honesty, temperance, charity
and community spirit.

7. Work group:
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