Starting in the 17th century, The Puritans were the dominant people in New England. They desired to purify the English Church, hence their name. They decided that the best way to do that was to come to America, and try to be a model society, for the rest of the world to see. They tried to not to give in to temptation, but to live a godly life. They made many rules to try to prevent sinning, and to keep their lives extremely pure. For as big as their aspirations were, the Puritans were not perfect. During the 17th century, The New England Puritans partially achieved their ambitious goal of creating a model society. First of all, The Puritans did have their successes at creating their model society. One first obvious reason is that society still
