Puritanism: Bluffer’s Guide

Here’s a quick bluffer’s guide (courtesy of Wikpedia)  to the Puritan period under review for those who performed …um…less well in this week’s test….

1559
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement

1563-67
The ‘Vestments Controversy’

1588-89
The ‘Marprelate Controversy’

1604
The Hampton Court Conference

1620
The founding of Plymouth Colony in New England (by separatists)

1629
The founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England (by non-separatists)

1642-51
The English Civil War

1643-49
The Westminster Assembly

1660-62
The Act of Uniformity/The Great Ejection

1720s-30s
The First Great Awakening

~ by kenbaker on November 1, 2007.