PURITANS

HISTORY

• Origins in English Reformation
• Great Migration
• Puritans founded many colonies

CLOTHING

• Laws governed the way they dressed
• Wearing lace was forbidden
• Skirts had to be long enough to drag

RELIGION

• Believed in predestination
• They did not believe in any excess worship
• Did not think good works could get you into heaven
• Viewed men as evil

DAILY LIFE

• The husband was in charge of the household
• The wife wove cloth, made candles and soap, and worked in the fields
• Both men and women spent a lot of their time farming

LITERATURE

• Did not write for pleasure or entertainment
• Not a lot of writings
• Puritan plain style

WOMEN IN PURITAN SOCIETY

• Women were seen as inferior
• Expected to obey their husbands
• Widows were the exception to the limitations placed on women