The Americans: The Colonial Experience

The Americans: The Colonial Experience

The Americans was not believed to be a ground for a utopian society, rather a place for a new start, more freedom, and fewer taxes. The initial groups to settle the “New World” were the Puritans, “separatists” making a hopeless attempt to try to purify the Church of England by swearing loyalty to the group instead of the king. This all takes place during the 17th and 18th centuries. The following topics that will be discussed are intended to portray all of the different aspects of colonial American social and governmental tendencies. The impression that Boorstin has hidden in the context of the book is that of the portrayal of the “Old World’s” ideas and the influence that those ideas had on the coming of the New World, or better known as America.

The Puritans sailed westward across the Atlantic Ocean in 1630. There were fifty-two Puritans that came to the New World to set up the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the governor of t...