PURITANS AND
QUAKERS
9/17/14
PURITANS
• They lived everything off of the bible
•
•
•
•
•
•
Women subservient
Education was highly emphasized
Arranged marriages
Typical puritan women had 8 children
Cultural mistrust of women (Salem Witch Trials)
Women were not to have any political or religious voice
QUAKERS
• Also called the Society of Friends
• Were pacifists, did not believe in fighting
• Radical religious group arose in the 17th century
• Rejected formal theology
• Focused instead on the Holy Spirit that dwelled
inside of them
• Reason they called the Quakers
ORIGINAL SIN VS. ORIGINAL BLESSING
• Puritans believed in predestination
• Belief that your life is already planned out and you are
already destined to go to either heaven or hell
• Quakers believe in the power of the holy spirit
• Sanctification was the belief that every believer had an
inner light that leads a person to God and to have a more
positive outlook on humanity
ROLE OF CHURCH AND STATE
• Puritans had no separation of church and state.
They believed that they were called by God to
establish a pure Christian state in America
• Quakers allowed more religious freedom. They
refuse to follow practices that were against their
beliefs
VIEWS ON EQUALITY
• Puritans had very traditional gender roles
• Only men could be ministers and leaders
• Puritans also believed that the Indians were
savages
• Quakers were concerned for the well-being of the
Indians