A little more reserch would show you that the Puritans did not trave ldirectly from there problems in England to America but first went to Holland. When they found there a society which they found to ungodly, they resolved to move on, but they were such good citizens that the Dutch BEGGED then to stay, even offering to build them homes if they would stay. Does this sound like the kind of hateful folks you have been told about? (source: a sermon by D. James Kennedy- who has more degrees than you can fit on a buisness card. I think he knows a thing or to about research)
You will find, as you mature, that every source of information brings a bias to the way it is presented. Those which you have been reading have a libral anti-standards bias, those which i might prefer have a conservitive pro-morals bias. The truth, of course, is somewhere in between.
Let me tell you what these people were. The were human. Neither worse or better than you, either in their practices or there beliefs. Yes they may have done things we would not aprove of, but I doubt any of us approve of Washington and Jefferson owning slaves either, but if we are wise, we apricaite what they contributed to history anyway. They were creatures of their times. And if this world stands another 400 years, no doubt those people will look back on you and me and shake their heads in reproach as well.
And BTW, you should be very proud of your fellow posters generosity, I speak from experience when I say none of my profs would have went that high either.
AP? For what second grade? If I were your history teacher, you'd be history . . . Maximum of a C-