In the year 1630 a man named John Winthrop was a lawyer and a religious leader in England. John Winthrop told a group of religious people called the Puritans that they should be "The City Upon a Hill". The Puritans wanted to show the people of England how to live in God's desire. This gave the Puritans a purpose in purifying their church and to settle onto Massachusetts to seek for religious freedom. In the late 1630s, the movement of the Puritans settling onto America became a piece of the "Great Migration". The puritans influenced America to be religious because the Puritans created the foundation of Christianity.
