A major part of the destiny of United Stated is shaped by the first Puritans who landed on the shores of New England Massachusetts. Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Thomas Cromwell called "a poor, cold, and useless" place, where they created a ideology that was essential in the shaping of American religion, culture, and politics for all times to come . These newcomers and the range of their achievements and failures transformed that useless land into the most important country in world.
             The events that led to the settlement of New England both at Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay stemmed from the religious controversy begun by Martin Luther's Reformation movement and the formation of the Protestant Church. Those in England who felt they needed to "purify" the Anglican Church were called Puritans. They divided themselves into two groups, one of which felt it was possible to live under the rules of the Church of England (while transforming it from within), and the other which felt they could not. The latter were called "Separatists," and the some of them moved to Holland for a time and then migrated to America. They were the famous Pilgrims who left Holland in two ships in 1620.
             The journey proved to be a particularly harsh one. Out of the two ships that left Holland, one was found to be unseaworthy, leaving just one ship, called Mayflower, to complete its journey. The immigrant, 62 days and 4 deaths later, landed far north of the place they had originally planned. This is where God must have wanted them to land, explained some of them, and hence this is where they would settle. This was going to be there home, their farm land and they would also worship here. William Bradford, the first Governor of the immigrants later wrote about the bleakness of those early days, when he said that there were "no friends to welcome, no inns to entertain". The land too was filled with "wi...