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This period is The Age of Faith The early settlement Early Settlement: 1607, Captain John Smith The first permanent English settlement 1620, William Bradford, Mayflower, reached Plymouth, Massachusetts The Puritan migration began. ▲Reasons: To reform the Church of England To have an entirely new church To escape religious persecution To seek a new Garden of Eden To build “City of God on earth” ▲The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were mostly Puritans. American Puritanism exerts great impact on American society until today. Their Religious Doctrines: origi