Puritan Influence on Modern America

Work Ethic

• influenced modern social & economic life
• success as a sign of salvation
• had concern for education
• hard work & good deeds would yield rewards

Ideas in Government

• church gov't carried into political life
• important for development of the U.S.

Influence on the American Dream

• Puritans were one of the first to come to America for a better life
• people still do this today in America to escape oppression in other places