English, 18.02.2021 09:00 notkeandre9

Which quotation best supports the idea that Puritans had a monocultural perspective? . it was their “Yankee ingenuity” and practicality that created the work ethic

. . . idealized in our schoolbooks as a “hardy band” of no-nonsense patriarchs whose discipline razed the forest and brought order to the New World . . .

. . . but there was the other side, the strange and paranoid attitudes toward those different from the Elect.

. . . they behaved in such a bizarre and irrational manner that this chapter in the American history comes down to us as a late-movie horror film.

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