Puritans Influence On American Culture

Puritans are among the most-studied people in history. The most essential reason for this concentrated attention is that scholars have an indomitable sense that in studying Puritanism they are uncovering the roots of American culture, “origins of the American self”. Puritanism is so important that some scholars have treated it as a “consensus”, within which all of American civilization has taken shape. However, Puritanism is not responsible for everything about America, but it was assuredly one of the seminal cultural influences from which America historically derived. Overall, Puritanism which originated from a movement for return in the Church of England, had profound influence on social,political, ethical, and theological ideas of the Americas, which shaped American peoples natural character of being hard-working and making them bear a strong sense of mission.

Though philosophy has had a great influence on American culture, and has shaped the national character of American people. Many of the common values practiced in the U.S. are individualism,egalitarianism and optimism which find their origin in Puritanism of the colonial period. Since, individualism has been deeply rooted in the early American Puritanism, it is best known as the core of American values today. Nowadays, the value of individualism has imbued every corner of American society. Puritanism, being a group of religious reform, keeps the breach of authority tradition and “develops a strong