Why Did the Puritan Experiment in the New World Last

question 8

Multiple Choice

Why did the Puritan experiment in the New World last only a few short generations?

• A) People began to move further out from the town center to hinterlands that were out of the range of church authority.
• B) Increasing prosperity weakened the younger generation's commitment to church principles.
• C) Fervent sermons-jeremiads-on society's increasing depravity did little to rouse parishioners.
• D) All of these choices.
• E) None of these choices.

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