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Any-Assist6732 t1_j1iwris wrote

It was his religious fanatics that helped founder American

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ukexpat t1_j1j48gd wrote

Either that’s a very prescient pun…or just a plain old typo…

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Laura-ly t1_j1jn703 wrote

I think it was a typo....he meant to say "floundered" America.

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BoringView t1_j1jwy0l wrote

Cromwell in fact almost left for America in the early 1600s.

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YejiWord t1_j1jdb61 wrote

Source?

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RobertoSantaClara t1_j1qi597 wrote

He is referring to the Pilgrims and Puritan migration to New England in the 1600s. Massachusetts and Connecticut were Puritan strongholds, and even sheltered some of the Regicides who killed King Charles I.

However, I disagree with the whole "Puritans founded America" line. New England is only one small part of the USA, tucked away in the northeastern corner of the country. The rest of the colonies had completely different origins from NE and they were not Puritan strongholds by any means. In fact, the Quakers of Pennsylvania were persecuted in New England.

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RobertoSantaClara t1_j1qhts1 wrote

*founded one part of America

New England isn't the whole USA, that'd be like saying all of Germany is Swabia. Pennsylvania was founded by Quakers, not Puritans, while Virginia and the other Southern colonies were largely Anglican and had nothing to do with Puritanism. Then of course we have Maryland, which was founded by Catholics, the arch-nemesis of Puritans.

Boston likes to claim a sort of monopoly on American Independence War history, but lets not buy into their cheeky attempts to portray the whole country as them alone.

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MicahBurke t1_j1k0g70 wrote

Unbelievable! People keep telling me that none of the founders were religious! /s

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