What if the Puritans didn't come to America? What affects would this have on American culture, the American revolution, democracy, etc.?
Puritans don't really have much to do with America's Puritanical attitudes.The US doesn't end up with by far the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the First World. Other than that, not really my time period.![]()
In that case, where do America's Puritanical attitudes come from?Puritans don't really have much to do with America's Puritanical attitudes.
A variety of religious groups of separate origin from the original Puritan churches, which actually have now all mellowed out into liberal mainline Congregational churches with the states they founded being some of the most liberal with the lowest pregnancy rates.In that case, where do America's Puritanical attitudes come from?
The Great Awakenings, our rural nature and a general aversion to organized religionIn that case, where do America's Puritanical attitudes come from?
Without the Seperatist Puritans, who would settle there? Well, other Englishmen are good contenders-maybe the Quakers? Or another religious minority? Maybe even Levellers, escaping from the collapse of the Commonwealth or from the Rump Parliament? And if the English don't settle there, maybe the New Netherlanders, the Acadians, or the Portuguese?