2. Emigrants who preferred a chance to get rich could dead further south to Chesapeake. Puritan values helped the Colonists prosper in the demanding new land. Church and State were united in early modern Europe. A system of church courts gave the crown a way to exert revenue.
3. The merge of Church and State gave power to every religious decision. Puritans came from all ranks of English society including a few Aristocrats, however, most Puritans belonged to the “middle sort” of society. Puritanism reinforced the values of diligence and delayed gratification. They were of all different professions, including fishermen and fur traders. The idea of the exact belief system of the Puritans is debated.
4. The first emigrants consisted of 102 Separatists, and they were called the Pilgrims. In 1630 a much larger migration occurred, and it was known as the “Great Migration”. The emigrants who came to the new land sought to ensure their independence. Although the emigrants were driven, the new land lacked a profitable plantation crop for them to eat and profit from. Land was given and granted based on how hard an individual worked to get it, and everything they wanted to needed they had to get and do on their own since they were in such a new and foreign land.
5. During the 1630s New England thrived primarily from the regular infusion of newcomers, as they contributed new ideas and things the population. The fishing trade, among other things, was very important to society and profit at that time. Few New Englanders owned slaves. When something failed, the Puritans did not want to believe that its failure was purely random, and always believed that something supernatural was involved. Ultimately, New England failed.
