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Explore the importance of religion to the community of Salem The puritans led a very simple but hard lifestyle. When they weren't working they were in church or praying, which gave them little, if any time to socialise and enjoy themselves. They led their whole life trying not to break any of the Ten Commandments set by God in The Bible. In 1630 the puritans were still living in Britain under the reign of Charles I. They wanted to leave because they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs by the English church. Between 1620 and 1640, nearly 50,000 Puritans left England for America, where they soon formed several towns. Unlike now, in the seventeenth century America was an exotic place, it seemed like the perfect escape route for the Puritans as it was far away from England and free from the persecution they were currently suffering. It was...

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