One of the major motivating factors that resulted in Puritans immigrating to the Americas was religious persecution in England. Puritans wanted to simplify Christianity to its roots and remove the vestiges of Catholic ritual and idolatry from the religion. English monarchs refused to incorporate these changes into the Anglican Church and at times outlawed and violently persecuted advocates of such ideas. True / False.

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Rhett Montes

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23 February, 04:50

One of the major motivating factors that resulted in Puritans immigrating to the Americas was religious persecution in England. Puritans wanted to simplify Christianity to its roots and remove the vestiges of Catholic ritual and idolatry from the religion. English monarchs refused to incorporate these changes into the Anglican Church and at times outlawed and violently persecuted advocates of such ideas. True / False.

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Jean · Answer 1

The answer is: TRUE

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To Puritans, was the term given to the group of English Christians that did not agree with the of the Church of England because they thought it retained too much of the practices of Roman Catholicism. They wanted to purify the Church.