The Puritans: Builders or Biggest? Puritans created a strong religious foundation for their land and people to live by, not to mention how they created capitalism and a democracy for our country. As a unified community, the Puritans built all of what is now Boston, and maintained great cultivators at the same time. They were able to cultivate wheat, corn, peas, oats, rye, barely, flax, horses, sheep, hogs and gees. These people were very compromising …
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…unify their community again and revive their religion. This was a smart decision made by the Puritans; considering that their "plan" to revive their religion worked and people in the community were once again unified. The Puritans also set an American standard for education, forcing towns with over 50 families to provide a school, and forcing towns with over 100 families to provide a grammar school as well, to help young men go to college. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**