Answer to Question #277115 in History for Jasmine Kelley

Question

The great irony of the initial New England Puritan establishment is that:

Answer 1

Irony is when a situation is strange because it happens exactly the opposite of expectation. In the puritan saints who established the New England depicted two different ironical situations; religious and political repressions. For the religious repression it was expected for them to show empathy to new comers to their settlement who were not of the same religion because they themselves moved thousands of miles looking for a place that would accept their religion. For political repression, it was ironical they had a civil government that required one to be a member of the church in order to vote or have a political power.