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Thanksgiving. Who Were the Pilgrims?. Church of England Puritans Separatists Netherlands America. Church of England. Gregory the Great chose Augustine to lead a mission trip to Britain in 595AD Augustine of Canterbury is the founder of the English Church in 597AD
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Thanksgiving Who Were the Pilgrims?
Church of England • Gregory the Great chose Augustine to lead a mission trip to Britain in 595AD • Augustine of Canterbury is the founder of the English Church in 597AD • Considered a part of the Western Church
Church of England • Initially the Church went with Rome in 1517 • In 1534 they separated from Rome over the divorce of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
Church of England • Queen Mary I returned the Church of England to Roman Catholicism in 1555 • Known as Bloody Mary because she enjoyed killing Protestants
Church of England • Just 3 years later, in 1558, the Church of England officially became Protestant leaving Rome under Queen Elizabeth.
Church of England • 1559 Act of Uniformity • Catholic • Reformed • Illegal not to attend official services ($20/week)
Puritans • Started as an activist movement inside the Church of England. • Puritan is derogatory meaning “sticklers” • Mainly sought greater purity & doctrine within the Church of England
Puritans • Most were strong Calvinists. • British laws made it hard for Puritans to do much inside the church • Many moved to the Netherlands
Puritans • Only 21,000 Puritans eventually moved to America…they had many kids and didn’t die easily. • By 1790 there were 700,000 American born Puritans • Influential in society (started Harvard)
Pilgrims • Pilgrims weren’t Puritans • They were Separatists • Led by Robert Browne • Known as Browne Separatists, not Pilgrims
Pilgrims • Believed their differences with the Church of England were irreconcilable and worship should be locally governed.
Pilgrims • In 1593 two pastors were executed for sedition. • John Bunyan would endure Separatist consequences.
Pilgrims • In 1604 it was hoped King James would make it easier on reformists…but he rejected all their requests except a new English Translation.
Pilgrims • In 1604 it was hoped King James would make it easier on reformists…but he rejected all their requests except a new English Translation.
Pilgrims “But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted & persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these which now came upon them. For some were taken & clapt up in prison, others had… [to] leave their howses & habitations, and the means of their livelehood.” - William Bradford
Pilgrims • William Bradford and other Brownist Separatists moved to the Netherlands. • The work was hard but they made a life…almost too good of a life.
Pilgrims • William Bradford and other Brownist Separatists moved to the Netherlands. • The work was hard but they made a life…almost too good of a life.
Pilgrims • Decided to go to America supported by venture capitalists wanting them to make fortunes through fishing.