Accomplishments
- In 1663, John Eliot translated the Bible into Algonquin; it became the first Bible published in North America.
- During the early 1600's, groups of pilgrims crossed the Atlantic and began to settle the first Puritan colonies in America.
- The Puritans founded a new colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
- The Puritans had compulsory education for children.
- The Puritans successfully created a new section of Christianity.
- The Puritans created the model of settlements and culture that revolved around the church.
- The Puritans settled North America and set the standard for New England colonization.
- The Puritans helped instill religious fervor in early American culture by mixing their politics with religion.
- The Puritans instituted representative democracies in the new colonies.
- The Puritans created the basis of New England's economy, mainly in shipbuilding.
- John Harvard founded Harvard College in 1636.