The founders of the New England colonies had
an entirely different mission from the Jamestown settlers. Although
economic prosperity was still a goal of the New England settlers, their
true goal was spiritual. Fed up with the ceremonial Church of England,
Pilgrims and Puritans sought to recreate society in the manner they
believed God truly intended it to be designed..... basically Clatholic
Generally speaking, Andrew Johnson's behavior in office ultimately hurt the cause of the Reconstruction era, since he quickly abandoned many of the more liberal policies that he had trumpeted earlier--leading to a federal abandonment of the oversight process in the South.
