Experts in American History, could you please reply to this question:?

John Eliot met with little success in converting the New England Indians to Christianity beause he:





a) allowed the Indians to blend their own religious ideas with Puritan religious ideas.





b) insisted that converts reject traditional Indian culture and live like Europeans.





c) preached his ideas only to Indian women.





d) insisted that the Indians had to adhere strictly to the elaborate rituals of the Puritan church.%26quot;
Experts in American History, could you please reply to this question:?
I may not be an expert in American History, but I would call myself an expert in answering multiple-choice questions.





Answer (a) is just silly; why would this cause him to be unsuccessful?





Answer (b) seems pretty likely; this sort of thing doesn%26#039;t tend to go over very well.





Answer (c) doesn%26#039;t sound like the sort of thing a Puritan missionary would do.





Answer (d) might be the answer if the Puritan church had elaborate rituals, but it didn%26#039;t.





Ergo, pick B.
Experts in American History, could you please reply to this question:?
The answer is probably “b” but it is not as simple as that. Eliot organized his converted Indians into communities called “praying towns” and these were subject to the laws and customs of the colony. These rules were the source of the pressures to adapt to an English form of society. It was not so much Eliot who was responsible for that as the Indian Superintendent, Major Daniel Gookin.