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Dominant Puritan Value

The biggest Puritan value that stands out to me is change. The Puritans weren't happy with the way the Church of England was running it's business, so they decided to change that. They tried to change it to the way they wanted, but they failed, so they decided to change where they did their business. They left England for America. Once they got here, they had to change the way they lived in order to survive. Once that became easy, they tried to change the Native Americans religion to their own, but that didn't work. Then, the Puritans tried to change their surroundings by driving the Native Americans out. Then everyone realized that being a Puritan sucked and they changed the way they ran their lives.

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Change

I think the Quakers made the biggest change more then the Puritans. The Quakers left there own country and started a new life with harder challenges. That helped later in life like improvement in growth in there village. Also the people who came here form different countries enjoyed it even more because they got to believe in what ever they want to. Like United States today people get to believe in what ever they want. I also think that people would respect more of the Quakers more then the Puritans because they respected the Native Americans better by making trades for land rather then killing there tribe.

Puritan Values

I think that the puritans express the value of directness, openness, and honesty. Their main issue in England was that people weren't practicing their religion like they wanted. The first thing they did was flat out tell the church how they felt. They were direct and honest about their opinion and came straight to America when things didn't go their way. Once they got to America they were still direct and open about their opinions. If someone said something that they didn't agree with, they made sure that person was punished.

change

The value that I chosen for this assignment is change. I believe that it is important to the Quakers more than the puritans. The reason for that is the fact that the Quakers came to America and started a completly new religion and lifestyle that no one in England had even thought of. Their concept of change has given them a fun and fufilling life and let them enjoy life more than the quakers. The quakers lived a very laid back lifestyle where the puritans were work, work, work, and go to church ten times a day and only the best of the best go to heaven. The quakers thought of change was revolutionary compared to that of the puritans.

The self-help concept is an American value that was definitely exhibited by the Puritans. First, they started out in England and were not happy with their lives there because of religious views. So, they “helped” their selves by moving to America. They knew they would have little here but they still came and prevailed. The puritans came together and started building houses, cutting down trees, and working to make a better life. Nothing got in their way, even the Native Americas. They did what they had to do to get more land and accomplished it.

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The value I pick is Personal control over the environment I picked this value because it really relates to the Puritans. When the Puritans first came to America they were like we can do anything we want and we can tell anyone what they should do. The Puritans took the Indians out of there own land that the Indians owned. They didn't even negotiate prices they just took them out without giving them anything. I don't think it's that way now America really changed from back in the old days. Then they made there own group that believed in the church of England so no one really says anything to them.

One thing the Puritans had was "personal control over the envirornment". When first arriving to America, they thought that they could just come and take over all the land. They fought the rightful owners of the land, the Indians, and took it as there own. In order for them to survive, they had to build their own coummunity. By doing this, they had to knock down trees and control the envirornment. Puritans didn't control the envirornment as much as we do today but they definately started it here in the United States. The Indians who originally were the only people living in the United States were one with nature and did not distrurb it.

Quaker values

One value that the quakers had in common with Amereican today was that the had control over their enironment. They started of coming to here, takiing the Native Americans land, becasue the thought that it belonged to them. Like the Americans today they fought for whatever they wanted. Also like our government the Puritanis tryed to control their community too. By telling everyone that they had to do things this way or they would end up in hell, or that god would dis-own them.

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I believe the best quality that the puritans possessed was their determination. From the start of when they immigrated from England to the time that they arrived in America they were determined to achieve freedom of religion. They were determined to keep their strong beliefs of practicing their religion, and to do that they had to fight for not only survival and setting up a good colony but fighting the Native Americans as well. All these actions that were taken by the puritans were achieved by strong determination. And because they were successful I think this was their strongest characteristic.

Control Over The Environment

The Puritans, like Americans today felt they had control over their environment. They wanted more land so they fought wars with the Native Americans to gain control over the land the Native Americans inhabited. The puritans cut down forests to make more space for themselves and expand their colony. Not only did puritans control the land, but they also tried controlling everyone who lived on the land. The common puritan didn’t have freedom of speech or religion. They were treated as if part of the environment, and therefore seen as another thing for the clergy and other leaders to control.

Quaker Values.

One american value that we have as americans is "freedom". I think this played an important role in the lives of Quakers. This is because freedom changed the way things ran through government, because the Quakers view of it was less intense and laid back than the way the puritans saw it. The puritans believed that freedom still had strict boundaries. Boundaries so strict, where basically it was the exact opposite as freedom. The Quakers saw freedom of a chance to create your own life, by the way YOU want to run it. Believing in anything you want, acting any way you want, and attending the events you WANT to attend. In the long run, the Quakers were right about the way they thought they should run their life, because they were popular by association. Things were easier for them when it came to learning the new land and how to grow crops and survive there, because they were nice and didn't look down on the indians. They viewed them as friends. Because of this good association, things started running faster in new england.

Directness, Openness, and Honesty

Okay well, I wanted to do this American Value because I didn't see anyone else had this one. I also wanted to compare these because The puritans were all about being honest. For example, if someone was to sneek off into the forest to give a Native American some grains, they would be looked down on. Just like in our sociecty if you were to lie and skipp school to give a homeless guy some food, some people would think it was okay, but most would have you punished. As did the Puritans, they had both Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson banished from the comunity, not for skipping school but for "rebelling" against the community. The Puritans wanted people to be honesty "Pure-itan" and we want people to be honest, but in a wholesome (tell me what i want to hear but thats also the truth) way.

Action and Work Orientation

The Puritans were very hard and devoted workers. They knew that when they came to America it wouldnt be easy to start over from scratch. They worked hard all day long and when the werent working they were at Church or worshiping God. They had barely any free time to do anything. Our society and their society are very different if we worked as hard as them we would achieve so much more. Overall the Puritans showed the doniant value of action and work orintation.


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Puritans

I think a dominant American value that the Puritans showed was honesty and directness for many reasons. The Puritans straight up said that they were not going to conform to the Church of England. The Puritans had many reasons why they were against the church and were often open about what they thought. They also showed honesty and directness by telling all the citizens in the town if they are not going to take their religion seriously than they are going to be banished. The directness they showed was a zero tolerance policy on having different beliefs and pretty much having any fun at all.

Change

Change is definitely something that are valued today and back in the puritans and Quakers day. Change was valued back then because they wanted to be different from the Church of
England. They thought that the church was not strict enough so they moved away. The same could work today if someone does not like the community they can move to go somewhere better for them. This is something everyone values is that we are able to change. This is what i believe was the most interesting and the most true about what is considered an American value back then and today.

I think the most dominant values of the Quaker life is their individualism and privacy. They let people believe in their own religion and don’t get all up in their business about it . They let them do what the people want and don't force them into something they don't want to do. The Quakers also don't kick people out if they don't like the same things.

Puritan Values

I think the most dominant value that the Puritans possessed was their honesty and directness. The Puritans were honest when they said that they did not like how the church of England was heading and then they broke off to America to have rules to their liking. Also if they found that someone in their community was breaking the rules or betraying them then they were very direct with them and would confront them and banish them from the community.

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Action/Work Orientation
The dominant american value that the Puritans had used the most was action/work orientation. The puritans didnt have a very open mind and they only liked people that believed the same thing as they did. The Puritans were very determinded to get things done, especially the way they wanted it. The Puritans showed this value was when they first got to thier colony their main goal was survival. The Puritans worked very hard to establish their colony and to get all the necessities they would need to survive. At first life as a Puritan was very hard because starting a colony in a new place was difficult. The Puritans werent fimilar with their surroundings and the land, thats why it was very hard to farm and to get good shelter for their families. The two things the Puritans mainly thought about and focused on was work and their religion. That is why they were successful at forming their colony. Overall, the American value of action and work orientation was expressed through the Puritans.

Puritan values!

I think that the newer Americans and the Puritans had allot in common. One thing tho is that having a hard work ethnic is very important to us and the Puritans. It is important because with the Puritans if they didn't work hard they would have died and wouldn't of lasted very long on their new found land. Also if they didn't work hard to fight off the English church and escape they would still have to be following the rules back in England. Also if the Puritans didn't work hard they would have been easily killed by all of the Indians that surrounded their villages. If America didn't have a hard work ethnic then we would have lost the war in Iraq already and America would have been taken over by some other weak foreign country. That is why i think having a good work ethnic is important to us and the puritans.


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The Puritans and Their Values

I believe the puritans were driven with work ethic for many reasons. They were always working or doing something to maintain survival, as we've seen in the video. The puritans worked hard to establish themselves into the new and unfamiliar land to build up a strong colony. Trying to obtain new land, and working hard to survive is not easy. They also acted against the native americans where they fought and forced them out of the land. Work and religion were everything and the biggest priority in the Puritan society.



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Puritan Values

The Puritans were a group of people in the 1600’s that were very action and work oriented. The Puritans had to constantly be focused on working on what they need to get done or else they would not survive. Almost all of their time was spent working around the village or attending church services. The Puritans had little free time to do what they wanted. The Puritans were very narrow minded people. They only respected the people that had the same beliefs as them. The Puritans would raid the Native’s villages and land instead of negotiating for it. I found this very odd that they did this because they were churchgoing people that thought that only the most religious people went to heaven. Being work and action orienting is a trait that you need to have when you are starting a new village in harsh conditions.

Action/ Work Orientation

Puritans and Americans alike have always been hard workers, and they have no problem with that. The puritans were always trying to distance themselves from the Church of England, and would always be doing their daily chores in their colonies, while Americans are always looking to get a jump on their job. The people who chose not to work were banished while Americans fall to the wayside and are forgotten. And although the consequences are much less than that of puritans, it is still bad enough Unlike Americans, puritans had no choice but to work, and the Americans today still feel the pressure to work to provide for their family. The most successful people in America are the ones who work the hardest, and this was also true for puritan life. The leader of all puritans, next to god, was the minister of the church, who tended to run the government and always be working, much like the president of America.

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Time and Control

Hello, and good evening American studies blog. Today, through out the day, I was pondering what Dominant American Value to write about. As for all of the values, I personally thought that Time and Control was the most obvious one to write about. As the school day crawled on, I brain stormed some good comparisons to use. The puritans liked to be in control. It's their way, or the high way. I feel that control in some american house holds is the way to a prosporus lifestyle. Planing out day to day activites, and keeping a close watch over all the little detailes in your life, are all controling the way a single person in a family would live. In the puritans, there was no freedom of worship, let alone much freedom at all. The puritans controlled their childrens lives, and most of all, their religion. If you didnt like what the Puritans were saying, take a hike, go be banished, and become one with the wilderness.

Me personally, havent read the bible cover to cover, but i know they talk about time in there. They just have too. The puritans main focus coming to the United States was survival, set aside from being the controlling freeks the puritans were, no offence, and no offence taken (speeking for all the dead puritans), but with the survival, there was no time to dilly dattle in, well, anywhere. Time was spent in worship, farming, and just getting the bare esentuals to live and raze a family.

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The Puritans.

The dominant American value that the Puritans used the most was the action/work orientation value. The Puritans worked very hard in everything they did. From the very beginning the Puritans worked hard to create a successful colony. They spend a lot of time working on their homes and expanding their colony. The Puritans spend a lot of time and work on setting rules for everyone and making sure that everyone was following them. Even though the Puritans were very strict and not so nice, they still worked very hard to accomplish what they did.

Quakers- American Dominant Values

The Quakers were the people that broke away from the Church of England to start a colony that stressed religious tolerance. In their colonies, they began a new concept of equality and egalitarianism. The Quakers treated all races equally and the women had more rights than in the Puritan society. In Pennsylvania, all men had an equal amount of land. Also, people were invited from all over Europe to come to Pennsylvania and start a new life of equality and religious freedom. These are both examples of how the Quakers made everyone equal. In America today, women have the same rights as men and there is religious freedom. Without the Quakers, who would have brought religious tolerance to America?

Puritans

I believe Puritans can be summed up into three values, directness, openness, and honesty. They are straight forward when they say they believe in one religion and only one religion. They don't pretend to like or believe in any others. Puritans are open to each other and all who question them. They have certain roles in their society and they will tell anyone them. They don't try to hide anything. They are also very honest. Puritans tell people what they think and not what they want to hear. You ask them a question and they answer it straight up.

Directness Openness and Honesty

The Puritans share many of the same dominant values as we have today, but i think the one that we share the most is our directness, openness and honesty. Americans are very blunt and tend to be very honest with out feelings. Puritans were also very open and honest about there feelings towards The Indians, people who broke the rules of their religion, and their feelings about the Church of England. The Puritans didn't like the people who didn't agree with their religion, and they would come right out and tell them, and then banish them. They did the same thing with the Indians. They didn't like the Church of England, and told them so by protesting, breaking laws, and starting religious wars. Instead of trying to sugar-coat their feelings, or act reasonably before they took greater measures, the puritans just went for it. They were very open about their feelings and expressed them in extreme ways. Today, Americans do the same thing. For example, Kanye West telling the world his opinion on George Bush's opinion of black people. Also, how if we don't like the way a country is governing themselves, we just storm in and change it ourselves. We don't try and hide our feelings or stay out of it, we jump right in and say and do what wee think, just like the Puritan people.

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I believe that the puritans were action/work oriented due to many reasons. To start off they always were working, as we have seen in the video. They try and work very hard to establish themselves and the colony into the new and unfamiliar land that they call home. Going to new land and trying to survive and live is very hard. They also took action against the native americans where they battled and pushed them out of the land. Work and religion was everyones first priority in the Puritan society.

I think the puritans were action and work orientated because all they had time for was to got to church and work. When the puritans came to America they had to fight for survival. To survive all the puritans could do was get food and build shelter for their family. Also when they came to America they thought all the land was theirs. They would fight with all the Indians for their land. The puritans were not willing to share with the Indians.

The Puritans Directness, Openness, & Honesty

The Puritans were one of the honest groups in american history. They told everyone what the expectations were and how everyone was going to live their life if you didn't want to get killed. They were too honesty and direct which caused them to be viewed as disrespectful to many people. Not only were they disrespectful, but they were also very controlling. Their religion was a big part of their life which caused many problems throughout their group of Puritans. They were very direct in which they had to follow the bible with exactly what it said and telling people they have to honor God all of the time. The Puritans also were honest with the Native Americans by telling them it's our land and kicking them out of certain areas. They thought they could get away with anything and they basically did because not a lot of people could stop them. That's what makes the Puritans known for their religious views and their crazy rules about living your life.

One American value that is shared with present day and back to the Puritans is religion. Religion now, and then was very important to people's lives. It shapes and helps create who people are. The Puritans were very strong with their religion. They believed a certain way and that's how things should be done. They believed everything from the bible and followed that and only that. That is one thing shared because some people now live that way.

Action/Work orientation

I think the Puritans were very action and work orientated because they were constantly working to survive. They had very little free time, it was church and work. Also since they believed everyone should believe the same thing, this promoted them to be more efficient. Without anyone questioning anything, they would have very efficient workers. They also believed the land was theirs by the right of god, so they pushed out the Native Americans by attacking them rather then trying to negotiate. They took their own actions to take their land by force. With a work and church only attitude, I think the Puritans have the action/work trait.

American values vs Puritan values

One of the American values was bassically about worshiping god. America (ussually) is very big on religion and god and stuff. "One Nation under God". Thats probably one of americas biggest values. It is also most definitaly the Puritans biggest value. Their whole life is based off god. They were so big on god and religion that they left their home land to worship the way they wanted to.

Work ethic of the Puritans

Dominant value: Work orientation

When the Puritans were being persecuted in England, they knew the had to go elsewhere. They also knew that it would be alot of hard work. But they had dedication and a work plan to come to America and succeed. The Puritans did alot of work here, because the first thing they had to worry about was, SURVIVAL. They survived with all the work they put in from leaving a country and coming to a brand new one. We all might not agree with theor beliefs, but we cannot deny their work ethic and dedication.

Directness, Opnenness, and Honesty.

The Puritans were very good at being direct, open, and honest, to one another and everyone else they came into contact with. For example, the Puritans believed that everyone should believe the same thing. They would march into Native American villages, and kill everyone for not believing the same things they did. Another way the Puritans showed their directness, openness, and honesty was when it came to religion. The Puritans were very open and honest about their beliefs. Everything to them was always about going to Hell. If you did something that upset the Puritans, they would just up and tell you, "You're going to Hell for that." That's pretty direct if you ask me. Dominant American values were very prominent in the period in the period that they were around for and being direct, open, and honest is just one of them that they have achieved.

Quakers - Change

Change was a very big value during the Quaker period. The reason why there were Quakers is because there were a group of people who wanted change. From what we learned you could be one of two things. You could be a puritan or be part of the Church of England. Many people didn’t like how either of these types of communities were being run so they decided to make a change in their lives. A new community was developed, Quakers. Once a new settlement was established many changes or new ideas were brought forward. For instance everyone was able to believe in his or her own religion. Also something very different to the old culture would be the fact that the Quakers were nice to the Indians. They worked with the Indians in trades and made transactions for land. People became Quakers because they wanted change in their world that’s why change is one of the dominant American values for the Quakers.

puritans

I believe the puritans were really independent and worked really had to get where they were.They first decided to leave England becuase of what they believed in.Then they came to America becuase they wanted to start their own religion and colonies.First,when they got there they had to start building and surviving.All the puritans knew was hard work and thats all they did was work.They never really couldnt have fun becuase they had to learn to live alone.Without being independent and hard working I dont think they would have accomplished what they did.Also if they werent independent they wouldnt have branched off to go to America

TIME AND CONTROL

I think the puritans belived highly in the dominant value of Time and Control. This is because they were always trying to becareful of the devil. They thought they never would know when he could be around. Time would have been highly valued because if the puritans knew they had time then they wouldn't always have to be so good. Time is very important because if you did something wrong in the puritan days then you would have time to fix it before the devil had gotten to you. control is also important because with time comes control. If you had more time then you would be in more control.

Puritan Vs.Quakers

The puritans would show the American value of Personal control over the enviorment. This is because they are tyrying to make it only one religion over the entire enviorment. They try to make the indian believe in there religion and any one else they can find. Because they only believe in one god so they think that everyone else should as well. That is what they see in their eyes that they are the right way to live a good and pure life and if you don't live like them they think that you will go to hell.

Dominant American Value

Work Orientation

The Puritans came to America and expressed the value of work orientation. That is the American value that says don't just stand there, do something. Well the Puritans definitely didn't just stand there. They started building a colony and building religon the second they got to America. They made sure you went to church and had a job doing something. The Puritans definitely expressed the American value of work orientation.

Dominant American Values

Dominant Value: Action/ work Orientation
With the Puritans

When the Puritans came to America they knew that they needed to spend a little bit more time working on the survival and a little less time on God. So the Puritans started making their own colony and tried at the same time establishing the religion to everyone around them. But even though they kept God in their life, they can all agree that he was takin out quite a bit. And its not like only a few of the men were doing all of the work, everyone needed to help in the society to survive. Not one person could be laid back for the first couple of years or so. They needed to make life as easy as possible. Even if that means that they all have to live in little tiny houses and they all only get half a meal. But everyone had to paricipate and all get treated equally until life there got a little easier. That is how action/work orientation fit into all of the puritans life when they first came to the new land.

future oriented

The quakers and the puritans both valued the future of the country. Every desision they made was based apon what will happen in the future. Todays americans value the future too. The puritans and quakers worked for their later ancestors. Parents still work hard for their kids. Also we can see that we care for our futur america because we are trying to keep the earth clean and green. people study hard to get into a good school to raise a good family. Back then they would work real hard and have strict values so their decendants will have a good base for a family.

Control over the Environment

As the Puritans arrived to America they were immediately faced with the issue of survival. They were desperate to use whatever means possible to control the environment to use it to their advantage, in order to survive. They began clearing forests, farming plants that aren't native to the land, killing the wildlife, building modern homes (for that era), and driving back the natives. It was their beleif that since they were holy, God entitled them to the land and they should have all control over it, even if that meant forcing the people who have lived there for many years to leave. Controling the environment played a vital role in the development of the puritans, and allowed their colonies to expand and flourish driving the indians further west, ultimately developing America as we see it today. If the puritans didn't adapt the land to their life styles instead of adapting their life styles to the land, they simply wouldn't have expanded to the magnitude in which they did. In fact they would probably not have survived to long on the other side of the pond, and the land would have forced the puritans back home to practice religion under the church of England.

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A value held by Americans today is getting married. This value can be traced back to the Puritans who also highly valued marriage. The main reason Puritans valued marriage was because it was what the Bible taught and they had a strong belief in the Bible. It was also necessary to get married to have children in order to prosper off of the land when they came to America. Marriage is a value to today's Americans because it is part of the American dream. According to most definitions of the American dream, one must be well educated, get married and have a family, and make a lot of money.

individuality and work orientation!

I think that both the Puritans and the Quakers exhibit signs of individuality and work orientation. Both of them show individuality because they left England to practice religion the way that they saw fit. When they got to America some members of the colonies left to form their own colonies to do as they please. (I also believe that both groups strived for unity in the new colonies of America because they wanted the new colonies to be like peas in a pod.) They show good work orientation because they knew when they left England that they would have to work hard just to survive. They started out with a bunch of bare land and made it into an area filled with homes, churches, and families.

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Assignment #1: Puritan/Quaker Values

Over the past several days, we have discussed two important religious groups in early colonial America: the Puritans and the Quakers. Use what you have learned about them, as well as the dominant American values that we discussed at the beginning of the school year, to answer the following question:

Some of today's American values date all the way back to the Puritans and Quakers! Choose one American value that we discussed, and explain in a paragraph (at least 6 sentences) how it played an important role in the lives of either the Puritans or the Quakers.

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