3. Close reading: What does Cotton say that God will do for the foreign people when they arrive in the new land?

Puritans

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Cotton said that God would do for the foreign people when they arrive in the new land was that God would help the Puritans by casting out the former inhabitants of the new land. Let's have in mind that the North American territories were already inhabited by many Native American Indian tribes that considered those territories as their lands, inherited by the ancestors.

John Cotton was one of the Puritan leaders that traveled to North America trying to find a new place to live and practice their strict religious teachings. He preached his people that God was going to help them settle in the new land and convince former inhabitants to accept the English Colonists.

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

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