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3. Clashing Views in American History, //The Puritans: **Orthodoxy or Diversity**?// (Also included in the 4th Edition //The Puritans: **Bigots or Builders**//)
 * Chapter 2 Study Guide:**
 * (Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson, //The Puritans//, 1938).**

Annie // The Puritans: //**// Orthodoxy or Diversity //**// ? // Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson -Puritan values have spread across the whole US & shaped US values -strictest during 17th century -diverged down 2 major paths: Unitarianism and Evangelicalism -religious leaders studied and prepared extensively -very INTELLECTUAL; all knowledge was ONE -gave power to men of wisdom and knowledge -“leadership by the learned and dutiful subordination of the unlearned”
 * __ Misconceptions __ || **__ Truth __** ||
 * bland clothes || colorful attire ||
 * dammed alcohol || drank alcoholic beverages without sinning ||
 * boring architecture || appealing aesthetic beauty ||
 * "forerunners of democracy" || did not intend to ||
 * free competition economic policy || government regulation of business ||

-“DANGEROUS TO READ HISTORY BACKWARDS” -Puritans who settled in New England were more radical than most -many of their views and opinions were common attitudes of the time period -“90% of the [Puritan's] intellectual life, scientific knowledge, morality, manners and customs, notions and prejudices, was that of all Englishmen.” -opponents were Anglicans [agreed with Elizabethan Settlement of church] -yet both Anglicans and Puritans shared many beliefs, hated Spain, both basically Protestant -still quoted Anglicans and read their literature -Puritans believed all people had to read about religion, vs Anne Hutchinson, who believed men could receive all necessary instructions from within -harder to continue Religion after new charter in 1692 divided church and state
 * -Began as reform of Church of England - restore to “purity”** [latter ½ of 16th century]