12) Which option best describes why Puritans were motivated to migrate from Engl
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12) Which option best describes why Puritans were motivated to migrate from England to the New World?
A) Puritans wanted to separate from the Church of England and practice their own form of Christian beliefs.
B) Puritans who wanted to convert to Judaism could do so in the New World without persecution from English rulers.
C) Puritans were promised riches such as gold and silver by Henry VIII if they established territories in modern-day Boston.
D) Puritans were fleeing persecution from the Roman Catholic Church and the Counter-Reformation movement.
Explanation / Answer
Puritans were fleeing persecution from the Roman Catholic Church and the Counter-Reformation movement. With the religious and political climate so unpromising, many Puritans decided to leave the country.
Puritans embraced Calvinism (Reformed theology) with its opposition to ritual and an emphasis on preaching, a growing sabbatarianism, and preference for a presbyterian system of church polity as opposed to the episcopal polity of the Church of England.
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