Because people back then were very superstitious <span />
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It was more limited and restricted to clergy and nobility.
In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, religion and government were profoundly tangled and only proven devoted Puritans were allowed to partake in governmental affairs, actually creating a theocracy (government administered by religious officials who impose religious beliefs). The Puritans were extremely intolerant of other religions and constantly persecuted other religious views, principally Quakers.
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During this period of social reform movements during the Gilded Age, <span>
people began movements for reforms like better working conditions or the right to vote for the women.</span>
