The Puritans of Massachusetts believed (check all that apply):

A. saw no important differences between civil and religious crimes.

B did not see education as important or necessary.

C. Puritan leaders showed toleration by allowing dissenters to debate within the church.

D. no real religious freedom was practiced among the Puritans.

E. magistrates administered laws of the colony and rules of the church.

Respuesta :

C. Puritan leaders showed toleration by allowing dissenters to debate within the church.
E. magistrates administered laws of the colony and rules of the church.

The correct answers are A) saw no important differences between civil and religious crimes. D) no real religious freedom was practiced among the Puritans. E) Magistrates administered laws of the colony and rules of the church.

The Puritans of Massachusetts believed these: they saw no important differences between civil and religious crimes, no real religious freedom was practiced among the Puritans, and Magistrates administered laws of the colony and rules of the church.

When the second wave of Puritans arrived at the new continent they established in three different regions. These were Rhode Island, New Heaven colony, and the Massachusetts Bay colony. John Winthrop was the first governor of the Bay and led the immigrant families to form reformer Protestantism that was called “city upon a hill”, in reference of the new city of Israel, with peaceful, educated, and religious people.