Puritan Controversy

The Puritans had mad many disagreements- between themselves, and the English. The disagreements between England were mostly about who would rule. The English wanted to rule the puritans in Jamestown, but the Jamestown people wanted to rule themselves. The puritans were very independent and wanted to become part of a democracy, but the English were power hungry and wanted to rule Jamestown. Since the church of England differed little from the catholic church, so the fights were mostly about power.

The disagreements between themselves were the same as the disagreements between the English. About power and religion. Even though the puritans seemed like a nice, peaceful community, they had many controversies among themselves. One of these were the battle of power. The ministers and wealthy families had basically all of the power. This upsetted the people so many issues were around this. Another problem was that education was very important to them. This may seem like a good thing but because of this a schoolhouse was required in a town with 50 or more people.